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Section Description |
1 WordNet User Commands |
3 WordNet Library Functions |
5 WordNet File Formats |
7 Miscellaneous Information about WordNet |
25 adjective cluster A group of adjective synsets that are organized around antonymous pairs or triplets. An adjective cluster contains two or more head synsets which represent antonymous concepts. Each head synset has one or more satellite synsets.
25 attribute A noun for which adjectives express values. The noun weight is an attribute, for which the adjectives light and heavy express values.
25 base form The base form of a word or collocation is the form to which inflections are added.
25 basic synset Syntactically, same as synset. Term is used in wninput (5WN) to help explain differences in entering synsets in lexicographer files.
25 collocation A collocation in WordNet is a string of two or more words, connected by spaces or hyphens. Examples are: man-eating~shark, blue-collar, depend~on, line~of~products. In the database files spaces are represented as underscore (_) characters.
25 coordinate Coordinate terms are nouns or verbs that have the same hypernym.
25 cross-cluster pointer A semantic pointer from one adjective cluster to another.
25 derivationally related forms Terms in different syntactic categories that have the same root form and are semantically related.
25 direct antonyms A pair of words between which there is an associative bond resulting from their frequent co-occurrence. In adjective clusters, direct antonyms appears only in head synsets.
25 domain A topical classification to which a synset has been linked with a CATEGORY, REGION or USAGE pointer.
25 domain term A synset belonging to a topical class. A domain term is further identified as being a CATEGORY_TERM, REGION_TERM or USAGE_TERM.
25 entailment A verb X entails Y if X cannot be done unless Y is, or has been, done.
25 exception list Morphological transformations for words that are not regular and therefore cannot be processed in an algorithmic manner.
25 group Verb senses that similar in meaning and have been manually grouped together.
25 gloss Each synset contains gloss consisting of a definition and optionally example sentences.
25 head synset Synset in an adjective cluster containing at least one word that has a direct antonym.
25 holonym The name of the whole of which the meronym names a part. Y is a holonym of X if X is a part of Y.
25 hypernym The generic term used to designate a whole class of specific instances. Y is a hypernym of X if X is a (kind of) Y.
25 hyponym The specific term used to designate a member of a class. X is a hyponym of Y if X is a (kind of) Y.
25 indirect antonym An adjective in a satellite synset that does not have a direct antonym has an indirect antonyms via the direct antonym of the head synset.
25 instance A proper noun that refers to a particular, unique referent (as distinguished from nouns that refer to classes). This is a specific form of hyponym.
25 lemma Lower case ASCII text of word as found in the WordNet database index files. Usually the base form for a word or collocation.
25 lexical pointer A lexical pointer indicates a relation between words in synsets (word forms).
lexicographer file Files containing the raw data for WordNet synsets, edited by lexicographers, that are input to the grind program to generate a WordNet database.
lexicographer id (lex id) A decimal integer that, when appended onto lemma, uniquely identifies a sense within a lexicographer file.
monosemous Having only one sense in a syntactic category.
25 meronym The name of a constituent part of, the substance of, or a member of something. X is a meronym of Y if X is a part of Y.
25 part of speech WordNet defines "part of speech" as either noun, verb, adjective, or adverb. Same as syntactic category.
25 participial adjective An adjective that is derived from a verb.
25 pertainym A relational adjective. Adjectives that are pertainyms are usually defined by such phrases as "of or pertaining to" and do not have antonyms. A pertainym can point to a noun or another pertainym.
25 polysemous Having more than one sense in a syntactic category.
25 polysemy count Number of senses of a word in a syntactic category, in WordNet.
25 postnominal A postnominal adjective occurs only immediately following the noun that it modifies.
25 predicative An adjective that can be used only in predicate positions. If X is a predicate adjective, it can only be used in such phrases as "it is X" and never prenominally.
25 prenominal An adjective that can occur only before the noun that it modifies: it cannot be used predicatively.
25 satellite synset Synset in an adjective cluster representing a concept that is similar in meaning to the concept represented by its head synset.
25 semantic concordance A textual corpus (e.g. the Brown Corpus) and a lexicon (e.g. WordNet) so combined that every substantive word in the text is linked to its appropriate sense in the lexicon via a semantic tag.
25 semantic tag A pointer from a word in a text file to a specific sense of that word in the WordNet database. A semantic tag in a semantic concordance is represented by a sense key.
25 semantic pointer A semantic pointer indicates a relation between synsets (concepts).
25 sense A meaning of a word in WordNet. Each sense of a word is in a different synset.
25 sense key Information necessary to find a sense in the WordNet database. A sense key combines a lemma field and codes for the synset type, lexicographer id, lexicographer file number, and information about a satellite's head synset, if required. See senseidx (5WN) for a description of the format of a sense key.
25 subordinate Same as hyponym.
25 superordinate Same as hypernym.
25 synset A synonym set; a set of words that are interchangeable in some context without changing the truth value of the preposition in which they are embedded.
25 troponym A verb expressing a specific manner elaboration of another verb. X is a troponym of Y if to X is to Y in some manner.
25 unique beginner A noun synset with no superordinate.