Concept - WordNet
Definition (s.59): the most well developed and widely used lexical database for English. Four databases: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs. Each consists of sense entries, each a set of synonyms (synsets), e.g. {musician, instrumentalist, player}; {person, individual, someone}; {life form, organism, being}.
Size (s.60):
| Category | Unique forms | Number of senses |
|---|---|---|
| Noun | 94474 | 116317 |
| Verb | 10319 | 22066 |
| Adjective | 20170 | 29881 |
| Adverb | 4546 | 5677 |
Use: supplies the senses (glosses, examples) for Concept - Word Sense Disambiguation / Concept - Lesk Algorithm (s.49-51); NLTK exposes it as nltk.corpus.wordnet (s.51). Web search interface: “S:” = show synset (semantic) relations, “W:” = show word (lexical) relations (s.59).
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Concept - Word Sense Relations | Concept - Synonymy and Semantic Relatedness