When using wordnet in publications, please cite both the wordnet interface, the Jawbone interface, and WordNet itself:

To cite wordnet, the R via Java interface to WordNet, please use:

Feinerer I, Hornik K (2026). wordnet: WordNet Interface. doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.wordnet, R package version 0.1-18, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=wordnet.

To cite Jawbone, the Java interface to WordNet, please use:

Wallace M (2007). Jawbone Java WordNet API. https://sites.google.com/site/mfwallace/jawbone.

To cite WordNet, please use:

Fellbaum C (1998). WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database. Bradford Books. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262561167/.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {wordnet: WordNet Interface},
    author = {Ingo Feinerer and Kurt Hornik},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 0.1-18},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=wordnet},
    doi = {10.32614/CRAN.package.wordnet},
  }

  @Manual{,
    title = {Jawbone Java WordNet API},
    author = {Mike Wallace},
    year = {2007},
    url = {https://sites.google.com/site/mfwallace/jawbone},
  }

  @Book{,
    title = {WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database},
    author = {Christiane Fellbaum},
    year = {1998},
    publisher = {Bradford Books},
    url = {https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262561167/},
  }