Image via Wikipedia Here are a number of online web services that assist you with analyzing text. With these tools you can tag your resources, create word clouds, extract collocations and do lots, lots more. A comprehensive list of tools is kept by Digital Research Tools. Webservice that tags your resources This webservice helps you… Read More Online resources for Text Analysis
Introduction Wordnet is based on a model of the organization of human memory called a Semantic Network (see Collins and Quillian). Such networks represent semantic relations among concepts as in the diagram on the right. We have knowledge of tens of thousands of concepts which we can usually recall effortlessly. As a lexical database of… Read More The Design of Wordnet
Image via Wikipedia Discourse analysis software can help you improve your reading skills to no end. Firstly you can identify areas of the text where you might have a problem because they contain a lot of unfamiliar words. Secondly, you can explore how an author uses words that you are already familiar with. The… Read More Exploring Vocabulary And Concepts With Tropes Zoom
What follows was taken from the original WordNet document which is located here: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/man/wngloss.7WN.html. Information in WordNet is organized around logical groupings called synsets. Each synset consists of a list of synonymous words or collocations (eg. “fountain pen” , “take in” ), and pointers that describe the relations between this synset and other synsets. A… Read More WordNet – Glossary Of Terms
Image via Wikipedia All of the dictionaries listed below are based on Wordnet and available for free. They are a good place to start if you want to learn about the semantic relationships that exist between words. Wordnet VisualWn Artha WordWeb If your not sure how Wordnet differs from a conventional dictionary then do not… Read More Dictionaries Based On Wordnet
Image by margolove via Flickr Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs Words classifiable in four different ways as either a noun, adjective, verb or adverb, are very useful when you’re trying to understand the semantic relationships that exist between words that are defined in Wordnet. You may or may not know that Wordnet is a free lexical… Read More Words classifiable in four different ways as a noun, adjective, verb and adverb
Image via Wikipedia Searching for information on the web is gradually becoming easier and easier thanks to three emerging technologies, the Semantic Web, Targeted Discovery and Semantic Search. In a nutshell, the Semantic Web, is a set of standards that make associating meaning with content easier and therefore aids developers who want to design search… Read More Semantic Search and Targeted Discovery
Here are the main semantic relationships between words that appear in Wordnet. Nouns hypernyms: canine (Y) is a hypernym of dog (X) – Y is a hypernym of X if every X is a (kind of) Y. hyponyms: dog (X) is a hyponym of canine (Y) – X is a hyponym of Y if every… Read More Semantic Relationships Between Words
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