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
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
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