Questions tagged [wordnet]
For question about wordnets, special linguistic resources providing semantic relations like synonomy and hyper-/hyponomy between words.
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Troponym vs hyponym vs hypernym
I came across following table in Jurafsky's book:
Note that it calls noun subordinate as "hyponym" and verb subordinate as "troponym". But it names both noun superordinate and ...
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Is wordnet a treebank?
Is wordnet an example of a treebank? If not, what are the differences? I'm not sure but may be a treebank contains parse trees but wordnet does not.
Thanks.
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Find the 5 most-different-from-each other adjectives in the English language
I am trying to find a set of N common adjectives that are the least-used with each other in English.
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Basically if you were creating a new language that was only going to have N adjectives and ...
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How relevant is WordNet nowadays?
How relevant is WordNet (both the original Princeton's and all other WordNets) as a tool for researchers now, decades later?
Do researchers consider it valuable?
And does the general research ...
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For each word in a corpus, find how many senses it has according to WordNet [closed]
I've come across this exercise in my studies and I do not know how to challenge, I've tried to follow examples though I can never find anything online that truly is symmetrical to what I'm trying to ...
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Jiang & Conrath when two words are the same
I would like to normalize the result of Jiang & Conrath similarity measure by dividing it by the maximum value(normally should be when both synsets are the same). I am using the implementation of ...
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Is gasoline, wine, coca-cola an artifact?
There are liquids naturally present in nature, like water, blood, oil, etc.
But gasoline, wine or milk shake are produced by humans.
Many thesauri, e.g. WordNet, don't classify later as artifacts, ...
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Data/Resource for adjectives related to nouns
I am looking for resource or some way(maybe using multiple resources) which can help me figure out which adjectives to use. For example:
weight > 40 : heavier
age > 40 : older
I am not sure how to ...
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up-to-date french version of WordNet ready to use in ElasticSearch
I'm looking for a decent, up-to-date french version of WordNet ready to use in ElasticSearch.
We already found Wolf and WoNeF but the format is not accepted by ElasticSearch.
(We're using ES v2.4)
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Dictionary used by WordNet for word senses
What dictionary does WordNet use for the various senses it lists for each word?
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On the programmatic creation of non-English 'syngraphs' for the purpose of lexicon study
I am a native English speaker. I have recently come to the conclusion that the main obstacle in my learning of foreign languages is always the study of the lexicon, which is vast and largely '...
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how to choose a threshold for Jiang-Conrath Similarity?
I want to compare two sets of keywords. After searching I understood that Jiang-Conrath Similarity is closer correlating with human judgement. I read this definition:
Jiang-Conrath Similarity ...
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Why does Wordnet lack stopwords ("the", "of", "her", etc)?
I have attempted to access it through both NLTK and the web inteface:
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=her&sub=Search%20WordNet&o2=&o0=1&o8=1&o1=1&o7=&o5=&...
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Does WordNet only contains Lemmas?
It seems to be an implicit assumption that wordnet only contains lemmas.
Eg in Combine dictionary lemmatization with stemmer.
I feel confidant it is a correct one, the Wordnet interface refers to ...
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Semantic Relatedness metric across Parts of Speech
I am a student in psychology, but I have very little familiarity with linguistics. I am doing working on flexible cognition and memory, and we are developing a task that requires participants to ...
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Combine dictionary lemmatization with stemmer
I'm doing lemmatization as part of a classifier right now.
My question is, if it makes sense to first use a dictionary lookup, to find the lemmas (wordnet) and after that additionally, to apply a (...
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What do WordNet::Similarity scores mean?
I am using WordNet Interface in NLTK, which facilitates computation of a number of similarity metrics:
Path similarity
Leacock-Chodorow Similarity
Wu-Palmer Similarity
Resnik Similarity
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Systematic analysis of the Japanese lexicon (specifically, Kanji)
I'm wondering whether anyone has carried out an analysis of the Kanji (or Hanzi), the traditional Chinese characters used in Japanese and some dialects of Chinese.
For example, I wonder whether ...
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Is there an open source English dictionary that isn't too fine-grained in defining a word?
I'm creating a multilingual online dictionary and I need an open source English dictionary to work off of.
Wordnet is the obvious choice, as it's extremely complete and its license is permissive of ...
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Which part of speech are 's' and 'r' in Wordnet?
From taking the synset of the word 'fantastic', I got a list of senses below:
[Synset('antic.s.01'), Synset('fantastic.s.02'), Synset('fantastic.s.03'), Synset('fantastic.s.04'), Synset('fantastic.s....
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