Wordnet

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    any of the machine-readable lexical databases modeled after the Princeton WordNet wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    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."

Synonyms

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princeton wordnet

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"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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Proprialization of wordnet.

Etymology 2

From word + net.

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