The Old Javanese Wordnet (OJW) is a lexical resource for Old Javanese, built from vocabulary extracted from the digitised Old Javanese–English Dictionary (Zoetmulder, 1982). It uses the Princeton WordNet synset hierarchy as a backbone and is linked to English and Indonesian.

The resource is developed by David Moeljadi and Zakariya Pamuji Aminullah.

Browse the wordnet at davidmoeljadi.github.io/OJW or download the databases from the latest release.

The source data is in wn-kaw.tab, one entry per line:

synset<TAB>lemma<TAB>variants

synset is the offset-pos from Princeton WordNet 3.0.

09815790-n	pariwṛta	pariwṛtta, pariwarta
00460735-a	ahĕniṅ	mahĕniṅ, ahniṅ
01332730-v	tumutupi

The build script produces a WordNet LMF XML package and two Cygnet SQLite databases, then deploys the web UI to docs/ for GitHub Pages.

• uv
• curl, tar, xz, wget, xmlstarlet, python3
• libxml2-dev, libxslt-dev
• The cygnet repository checked out as a sibling directory: ../cygnet

# Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install -y curl tar xz-utils wget xmlstarlet libxml2-dev libxslt-dev

# macOS
brew install curl wget xmlstarlet libxml2 libxslt

bash build.sh

This:

1. Clones required external data (CILI map, OMW scripts) into external/
2. Converts wn-kaw.tab to WordNet LMF XML and validates it against the DTD
3. Packages the XML as build/wnkaw-VERSION.tar.xz
4. Calls cygnet's build pipeline to produce two gzipped SQLite databases
5. Copies the web UI and databases to docs/

bash run.sh

Opens http://localhost:8801 (or similar) serving docs/ — the full web UI with the locally-built databases.

Releases are tagged YYYY.MM.DD and include three assets:

To create a release:

git tag 2026.03.14
git push origin 2026.03.14

gh release create 2026.03.14 \
  --title "OJW 2026.03.14" \
  --notes "Description of changes." \
  docs/kaw-cygnet.db.gz \
  docs/kaw-provenance.db.gz \
  build/wnkaw-2026.03.14.tar.xz

The live web UI at davidmoeljadi.github.io/OJW fetches the databases from the latest release automatically.

The web UI (docs/index.html) is the Cygnet browser, configured for OJW via docs/local.json. It runs entirely in the browser using sql.js — no server-side component is needed.

Configuration is in etc/local.json; the build script copies it to docs/. See cygnet/CUSTOMIZE.md for full documentation on all available local.json fields.

If you use the Old Javanese Wordnet, please cite:

David Moeljadi and Zakariya Pamuji Aminullah (2020). Building the Old Javanese Wordnet. In Proceedings of LREC 2020, pages 2940–2946. ELRA.

For the web interface, please cite:

Rowan Hall Maudslay and Francis Bond (2026). Cygnet: A merged multilingual wordnet browser.

The Old Javanese Wordnet data is released under CC BY 4.0.