In the Hindi WordNet, words are grouped together according to the similarity in their meanings. For each word, there is a synonym set, or 'synset', representing one lexical concept. This is done to remove ambiguity in cases where a single word has multiple meanings. Synsets are the basic building blocks of WordNets. Each synset in the Hindi WordNet is linked with other synsets, through the well-known lexical and semantic relations. Semantic relations are between synsets and lexical relations are between words. These relations serve to organise the lexical knowledge base.

Domains of tourism, health and agriculture benefit from it as people over the world gain easy access to information about India. Seizing this opportunity, the Government of India has initiated a nationwide consortium of projects on Machine Translation (MT) and Cross Lingual Search (CLIR). Hindi WordNet is used heavily in Cross Lingual Search involving Indian languages.

Hindi WordNet is fast becoming a helpful resource for language teaching and pedagogy. Teachers of Hindi at the school level are already using the Hindi WordNet extensively. It is the base resource used by many researchers for work on translation and summarisation. WordNet also functions as an online thesaurus which helps writers and journalists. Only a WordNet stores culture-specific words and terms with their explanations that cannot be translated so easily into other languages.

         Benefits of the Hindi WordNet

           -         captures words of the Hindi language

     -         helpful resource for language teaching and

           pedagogy, for researchers and scholars

     -         important in creation of Hindi language search

           engines and cross lingual search engines

     -         pivotal in leading to linked WordNets of other

           Indian languages

     -         a significant step in machine translation