Troponymic

A method of sense resolution is proposed that is based on WordNet, an on-line lexical database that incorporates semantic relations (synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, meronymy, causal and troponymic entailment) as labeled pointers between word senses. With WordNet, it is easy to retrieve sets of semantically related words, a facility that will be used for sense resolution during text processing, as follows. […]

Table 1. Semantic relations identified in VerbOcean. Siblings in the WordNet column refers to terms with the same troponymic parent, e.g. swim and fly.