Wordnet

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 […].

One very interesting possibility seems to be to complement WordNet-style lexicons with the SIMPLE design, thereby trying to get at a more comprehensive and coherent architecture for the development of semantic lexical resources.

Chai (2000) uses WordNet for information extraction, ie the identification and extraction of domain specific target information from a document [....]

For conference, which has 3 senses in WordNet, we get the following candidate taxonomic relations: [....]

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.

(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.