Summary ------- JOTL (Java OpenThesaurus Library) is an application programming interface for the free thesaurus project OpenThesaurus (http://www.openthesaurus.org). JOTL enables efficient and structured access to the information encoded OpenThesaurus, including synsets, senses, and semantic labels. Further information and documentation is available from the project homepage: * https://dkpro.github.io/dkpro-jotl License ------- JOTL is available as open-source software under the Apache License 2.0 (ASL). The software thus comes "as is" without any warranty (see license text for more details). Project Background ------------------ Prior to being available as open-source software, JOTL has been a research project at the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab of the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. The following people have mainly contributed to this project (in alphabetical order): * Yevgen Chebotar * Iryna Gurevych * Christian M. Meyer