WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database

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Christiane Fellbaum
MIT Press, 1998 - Computers - 423 pages

WordNet is an on-line lexical reference system whose design isinspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory;version 1.6 is the most up-to-date version of the system.

WordNet, an electronic lexical database, is considered to be the most important resource available to researchers in computational linguistics, text analysis, and many related areas. Its design is inspired by current psycholinguistic and computational theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexicalized concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.The purpose of this volume is twofold. First, it discusses the design of WordNet and the theoretical motivations behind it. Second, it provides a survey of representative applications, including word sense identification, information retrieval, selectional preferences of verbs, and lexical chains.

Contributors
Reem Al-Halimi, Robert C. Berwick, J. F. M. Burg, Martin Chodorow, Christiane Fellbaum, Joachim Grabowski, Sanda Harabagiu, Marti A. Hearst, Graeme Hirst, Douglas A. Jones, Rick Kazman, Karen T. Kohl, Shari Landes, Claudia Leacock, George A. Miller, Katherine J. Miller, Dan Moldovan, Naoyuki Nomura, Uta Priss, Philip Resnik, David St-Onge, Randee Tengi, Reind P. van de Riet, Ellen Voorhees

 

Contents

Introduction
1
Chapter
13
Chapter 1
23
Chapter 2
47
Chapter 3
69
Chapter 4
99
Design and Implementation of the WordNet Lexical Database
105
Chapter 5
131
Tengi
199
Chapter 9
217
Chapter 10
239
Combining Local Context and WordNet Similarity for Word Sense
265
Chapter 12
285
Temporal Indexing through Lexical Chaining
333
Chapter 15
353
Chapter 16
379

Chapter 6
153
Chapter 7
179
Appendix Obtaining and Using WordNet
407
Copyright

Common terms and phrases

adjectives adverbs algorithm analysis antonyms Association for Computational attributes automatically base form Brown Corpus Cambridge chapter classifier cluster Cognitive Computational Linguistics confidence ratings contains context defined denoted descriptive adjectives dictionary disambiguation English entailment EVCA EVCA-I example sentences Fellbaum figure formal concept frequency glosses hierarchy Holonym hypernym hyponyms interface IS-A kind knowledge Leacock lexical chains lexical database lexical file lexical relations lexicographers malapropisms matches meaning meronymy Miller models modified natural language nodes noun phrase object organization part-of-speech patterns pointers polysemous polysemous words preposition quantifiers query represented Resnik retrieval rotate selectional semantic concordance semantic networks semantic relations semantically tagged sense number similar snake source files specific structure superordinate synonyms synonymy synset syntactic category taggers taxonomy Tengi thematic roles tion tree troponyms unique beginners verb classes verb frames verb lexicon verb pairs word form word sense WordNet 1.5 WordNet senses

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Bibliographic information

TitleWordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database
Language, speech, and communication
EditorChristiane Fellbaum
Editionillustrated
PublisherMIT Press, 1998
ISBN026206197X, 9780262061971
Length423 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Computers / Artificial Intelligence / General
Computers / Languages / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
  
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