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WordNet: English Lexical Database Overview

WordNet is an online lexical database with English nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs organized into synonym sets (synsets). Its semantic relations provide an extensive resource for word senses and synonyms. Explore over 118,000 word forms and 90,000 word senses with 166,000 pairs. Utilize the 116,000+ pointers for detailed semantic relations in WordNet.

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WordNet: English Lexical Database Overview

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  1. WordNet: A Lexical Database for English George A. Miller Presenter: Cristina Nicolae

  2. WordNet • an online lexical database designed for use under program control • English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs organized into sets of synonyms (synsets) • semantic relations link the synsets

  3. WordNet Statistics • > 118,000 different word forms • > 90,000 different word senses • > 166,000 pairs (word, sense) • 17% words are polysemous • 40% have one or more synonyms

  4. Semantic Relations in WordNet A semantic relation is represented by a pointer between word forms or between synsets. >116,000 pointers

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