Myanmar Open Wordnet (MOW)

The Myanmar Open Wordnet (MOW) is a freely-available semantic dictionary of the Myanmar/Burmese language, part of the Open Multilingual Wordnet. It is built using the expand approach from Princeton WordNet synsets.

Browse the wordnet at https://omwn.github.io/mow/.

• Language: Myanmar/Burmese (my)
• Version: 0.1.3
• Source tab file: mow-0.1.3-mya_20171005165336.tab
• Licence: CC BY 4.0

Wenjie Wang. n.d. Myanmar Open Wordnet (MOW). https://wordnet.burmese.sg/

import wn
wn.download("https://github.com/omwn/mow/releases/latest/download/wnmow.tar.xz")
words = wn.words("ကုမ္ပဏီ", lang="my")

Prerequisites: uv, wget, xmlstarlet, Python 3.11+. Requires a local clone of cygnet at ../cygnet.

bash build.sh      # produces docs/ web UI + build/wnmow-*.tar.xz
bash run.sh        # serve docs/ locally for testing

1. Run bash build.sh to produce fresh DB files and the LMF tarball.
2. Create a GitHub release and upload:
   • build/wnmow-VERSION.tar.xz
   • docs/mya-cygnet.db.gz
   • docs/mya-provenance.db.gz
3. In Settings → Pages, set source to GitHub Actions.
4. The Pages workflow fires automatically on release and deploys the web UI.