How are they used?

Language games

Jabberwocky Nounsense

Semantic research

wnconnect

SemFrame (induction of semantic verb classes)

Limitation: omitted relations (Ide 2002, p. 18).

Web question answering

Query word classification: Mulder (Kwok, Etzioni, and Weld, 2001)

Web knowledge extraction

Class extraction: KnowItAll (Popescu, Yates, and Etzioni, 2004)

Knowledge management

Semantic Web applications: "I can't say enough about the value of WordNet as a resource. Semantic transparency is always going to be an exceedingly hard problem, but it's a great help to have a project that provides such a computer-readable framework for analyzing relationships between words."

Medical informatics: Augmentation of domain lexicon and senses required, such as "dead" (Smith and Fellbaum, 2004)

Translation

Collocation-dictionary construction (Kim, Zhang, and Kim 2001)

Controlled language design

Controlled English to Logic Translator (Pease and Fellbaum, 2004)

Vaporware

SUMO ("the only formal ontology that has been mapped to all of the WordNet lexicon")

SearchAide ("expert system designed to help novice users search the World Wide Web")