wordnet

plural wordnets

1. artificial intelligencehuman sciencesA semantically structured lexical database.

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

   2004, Helge Dyvik, "Translations as Semantic Mirrors: from parallel corpus to wordnet", in Karin Aijmer, Bengt Altenberg, eds., Advances in Corpus Linguistics: Papers from the 23rd International, page 312

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   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.

   2003, Cvetana Krstev, "Corpora Issues in Validation of Serbian Wordnet", in Václav Matoušek, Pavel Mautner, eds., Text, Speech and Dialogue: 6th International Conference, TSD 2003, České, page 133

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

   2006, Paul Buitelaar et al., "Domain-Specific WSD", in Eneko Agirre, Philip Edmonds, eds., Word Sense Disambiguation: Algorithms And Applications, page 290

1. artificial intelligencehuman sciencesA particular wordnet, a semantically structured lexical database, for the English language at Princeton University.

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

   1997, Josephine A. Edwards, Geoffrey Kingscott, Language Industries Atlas, page 334

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   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.

   1996, Keith J. Holyoak, Paul Thagard, Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought, page 259

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

   2001, Philippe Martin and Peter Eklund, "Large-scale cooperatively built KBs", Harry S. Delugach, Gerd Stumme, Conceptual Structures: Broadening the Base : 9th International Conference on, page 232

   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.

   2002, Nicoletta Calzolari et al., "Towards a Standard for a Multilingual Lexical Entry: The EAGLES/ISLE Initiative", in Alexander Gelbukh, ed., Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: Third, page 270

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

   2003, Piet Van Sterkenburg, editor, A Practical Guide to Lexicography, page 198

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

   2005, Paul Buitelaar, Philipp Cimiano, Bernardo Magnini, Ontology Learning from Text: Methods, Evaluation And Applications, page 64