Meaning of Wordnet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A semantically structured lexical database.
2. A particular wordnet, a semantically structured lexical database, for the English language at Princeton University.

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Examples

“Copycat uses a network of concepts, called a Slipnet, to find correspondences between nonidentical objects, just as ARCS uses WordNet-style semantic information to find similar concepts.”

“Recently the Group started a project of creating a thesaurus of the WordNet type for Estonian.”

“By (partly) mirroring one another, general servers would probably share a similar general WordNet-like or CYC-like ontology […].”

“One very interesting possibility seems to be to complement WordNet-style lexicons with the SIMPLE design, thereby trying to get at a more comprehensive and coherent architecture for the development of semantic lexical resources.”

“Chai (2000) uses WordNet for information extraction, ie the identification and extraction of domain specific target information from a document [....]”

“For conference, which has 3 senses in WordNet, we get the following candidate taxonomic relations: [....]”

“Bilingual corpora can be used for synset validation in a more fruitful way, especially having in mind the request that all synsets from a wordnet for a language other than English have to be associated, if possible, with an English synset using ILI.”

“(if a document mentions dogs, a wordnet allows the inference it is about animals)”

“This trimmed wordnet was used in a cross-retrieval test environment and compared with the generic wordnet and no wordnet.”

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