WordNet

See also: wordnet

English

Etymology

From word +‎ net.

Proper noun

WordNet

1. (linguistics, artificial intelligence) A particular wordnet, a semantically structured lexical database, for the English language at Princeton University.
   • 1996, Keith J. Holyoak, Paul Thagard, Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought, page 259:

     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.

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

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

   • 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

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

   • 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

     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.

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

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

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

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

References

• 1998, Christiane Fellbaum (ed.), WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database (Language, Speech, and Communication), MIT Press

Further reading

• WordNet website
• WordNet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia