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:

Ingo Feinerer and Kurt Hornik (2012). wordnet: WordNet Interface. R package version 0.1-8. URL http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=wordnet.

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

Mike Wallace (2007). Jawbone Java WordNet API. URL http://mfwallace.googlepages.com/jawbone.html.

To cite WordNet, please use:

Christiane Fellbaum (1998). WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database. Bradford Books.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {wordnet: WordNet Interface},
    author = {Ingo Feinerer and Kurt Hornik},
    year = {2012},
    note = {R package version 0.1-8.},
    url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=wordnet},
  }

  @Manual{,
    title = {Jawbone Java WordNet API},
    author = {Mike Wallace},
    year = {2007},
    url = {http://mfwallace.googlepages.com/jawbone.html},
  }

  @Book{,
    title = {WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database},
    author = {Christiane Fellbaum},
    year = {1998},
    publisher = {Bradford Books},
  }