Copying and sharing ConceptNet
ConceptNet 5 comes largely from the hard work of hundreds of thousands of people who gave their time and knowledge for free. So ConceptNet is free as well.
The complete data in ConceptNet is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license.
Note that there are two clauses to this license, attribution and share-alike, and they are both important! You may not use ConceptNet without attribution. You may not use ConceptNet in a data set with an incompatible license. You may not add restrictions such as "non-commercial" or "research use only".
If you use ConceptNet 5 in research, cite this paper:
Robyn Speer, Joshua Chin, and Catherine Havasi. 2017. "ConceptNet 5.5: An Open Multilingual Graph of General Knowledge." In proceedings of AAAI 31.
To give credit to ConceptNet in software that uses it, put this text in a user-visible place:
This work includes data from ConceptNet 5, which was compiled by the
Commonsense Computing Initiative. ConceptNet 5 is freely available under
the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC BY SA 3.0) from
http://conceptnet.io.
The included data was created by contributors to Commonsense Computing
projects, contributors to Wikimedia projects, DBPedia, OpenCyc, Games
with a Purpose, Princeton University's WordNet, Francis Bond's Open
Multilingual WordNet, and Jim Breen's JMDict.
ConceptNet has been developed by:
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The MIT Media Lab, through various groups at different times:
- Commonsense Computing
- Software Agents
- Digital Intuition
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The Commonsense Computing Initiative, a worldwide collaboration with contributions from:
- National Taiwan University
- Universidade Federal de São Carlos
- Hokkaido University
- Tilburg University
- Nihon Unisys Labs
- Dentsu Inc.
- Kyoto University
- Yahoo Research Japan
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Luminoso Technologies, Inc.
Significant amounts of data were imported from:
- WordNet, a project of Princeton University
- Open Multilingual WordNet, compiled by Francis Bond and Kyonghee Paik
- Wikipedia and Wiktionary, collaborative projects of the Wikimedia Foundation
- Luis von Ahn's "Games with a Purpose"
- JMDict, compiled by Jim Breen
- CC-CEDict, by MDBG
- The Unicode CLDR
- DBPedia
Here is a short, incomplete list of people who have made significant contributions to the development of ConceptNet as a data resource, roughly in order of appearance:
- Push Singh
- Catherine Havasi
- Hugo Liu
- Hyemin Chung
- Robyn Speer
- Ken Arnold
- Yen-Ling Kuo
- Joshua Chin
- Joanna Lowry-Duda
- Robert Beaudoin
- Naoki Otani
- Vanya Cohen
The Commonsense Computing project originated at the MIT Media Lab and expanded worldwide. Tens of thousands of contributors have taken some time to teach facts to computers. Their pseudonyms can be found in the "sources" list found in ConceptNet's raw data and in its API.
Data collected from Verbosity, one of the CMU "Games with a Purpose", is used and released under ConceptNet's license, by permission from Luis von Ahn and Harshit Surana.
Verbosity players are anonymous, so in the "sources" list, data from Verbosity is simply credited to the pseudonym "verbosity".
ConceptNet uses data directly from Wiktionary, the free dictionary. It also uses data from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia via DBPedia.
Wiktionary and Wikipedia are collaborative projects, authored by their respective online communities. They are currently released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
Wikimedia encourages giving attribution by providing links to the hosted pages that the data came from, and DBPedia asks for the same thing in turn. In addition to crediting the assertions that came from Wiktionary and DBPedia, we also provide "ExternalURL" edges pointing to the page that they came from. For example, the term /c/de/sprache has an ExternalURL link pointing to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sprache. Its list of individual contributors can be seen by following its "History" link.
The URLs of links to DBPedia are the same as the resource names that DBPedia uses, encouraging interoperability with their linked data.
WordNet is available under an unencumbered license: see http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/license/. Its text is reproduced below:
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Open Multilingual WordNet was compiled by Francis Bond, Kyonghee Paik, and Ryan Foster, from data provided by many multilingual WordNet projects. Here is the complete list of references to the projects that created the data.
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