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Etymology

Proprialization of wordnet.

  1. derived from *neHd-✻ — “to knot, turn, twist”
  2. inherited from *natją✻ — “net”
  3. inherited from *nati✻
  4. inherited from net
  5. inherited from net
  6. compounded as wordnet — “word + net”

Definitions

  1. A particular wordnet, a semantically structured lexical database, for the English…

    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.
    • Recently the Group started a project of creating a thesaurus of the WordNet type for Estonian.
    • By (partly) mirroring one another, general servers would probably share a similar general WordNet-like or CYC-like ontology […].

  2. A semantically structured lexical database.

    • (if a document mentions dogs, a wordnet allows the inference it is about animals)
    • This trimmed wordnet was used in a cross-retrieval test environment and compared with the generic wordnet and no wordnet.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for WordNet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA