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wordnet

wordnet noun: a semantically structured lexical database.

Noun

wordnet (plural wordnets)

  1. (artificial intelligence) A semantically structured lexical database.
    • Bilingual corpora can be used for synset validation in a more fruitful way, especially having in mind the request that all synsets from a wordnet for a language other than English have to be associated, if possible, with an English synset using ILI.2003, Cvetana Krstev, "Corpora Issues in Validation of Serbian Wordnet", in Václav Matoušek, Pavel Mautner, eds., Text, Speech and Dialogue: 6th International Conference, TSD 2003, České, page 133
    • (if a document mentions dogs, a wordnet allows the inference it is about animals)2004, Helge Dyvik, "Translations as Semantic Mirrors: from parallel corpus to wordnet", in Karin Aijmer, Bengt Altenberg, eds., Advances in Corpus Linguistics: Papers from the 23rd International...

Proper noun capitalized: WordNet

WordNet

  1. (artificial intelligence) A particular wordnet, a semantically structured lexical database, for the English language at Princeton University.
    • Copycat uses a network of concepts, called a Slipnet, to find correspondences between nonidentical objects, just as ARCS uses WordNet-style semantic information to find similar concepts.1996, Keith J. Holyoak, Paul Thagard, Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought, page 259
    • Recently the Group started a project of creating a thesaurus of the WordNet type for Estonian.1997, Josephine A. Edwards, Geoffrey Kingscott, Language Industries Atlas, page 334

Forms of wordnet

pluralwordnets

Origin of wordnet

From word + net.

Proprialization of wordnet.

Questions about wordnet

What does wordnet mean?
Wordnet means a semantically structured lexical database.
What part of speech is wordnet?
Wordnet can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of wordnet?
The plural of wordnet is wordnets.

Words near wordnet in the dictionary

  1. wordmongerings
  2. wordmongers
  3. wordmongery
  4. wordnesia
  5. wordness
  6. wordnet
  7. wordnets
  8. wordnik
  9. wordniks
  10. wordoid
  11. wordoids

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