wordnets

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A form of wordnet — A semantically structured lexical database.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of wordnet

    Wordnets include words of the natural language, collocations and various relations between them.

    1999, Leo Hadacz, "Semantic Inference in the Human-Machine Communication", in Václav Matoušek, ed., Text, Speech and Dialogue: Second International Workshop, TSD'99, Plzen, page 354
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    EuroWordNet is an EC-funded project […] that aims to build a multi-lingual database consisting of wordnets in several European languages.

    1998, Wim Peters et al., "Cross-linguistic Alignment of Wordnets with an Inter-Lingual Index", in Piek Vossen, ed. Eurowordnet: A Multilingual Database With Lexical Semantic Networks, page 221

    It is obvious that hypertext and wordnets share many common points regarding their fundamental principles and the objectives toward which they both aim.

    2003, Dimitris Avramidis et al., "Approaching Wordnets through a Structural Point of View", in Peter J. Nürnberg, ed., Metainformatics: International Symposium, MIS 2002, Esbjerg, Denmark, page 49
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