synset

plural synsets

1. computingA set of one or more synonyms that are interchangeable in some context without changing the truth value of the proposition in which they are embedded.

   In some cases a synset that appears to be a logical choice for a query is nonetheless detrimental.

   1994, Donna K. Harman, The Second Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-2)

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   The basic object in WordNet is a set of strict synonyms, called a synset. By definition, each synset a word appears in is a different sense of that word.

   1993, D. K. Harman, First Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-1): Proceedingshttps://books.google.cz/books?id=A81RmnI0l5cC&pg=PA344

   A synset is essentially what Sparck Jones (1964, 1986) calls a "run," which is the basic element in her theory of semantic classification.

   1998, Christiane Fellbaum, WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database

   In general, based on concepts from NLP and information retrieval, synsets are defined as a collection of data entities that are considered semantically similar.

   2019, Dipanjan Sarkar, Text Analytics with Python […] , Apress, →ISBN, page 522

   Synonyms: synonym ring