wngloss.man

基于语义本体的单词查询系统

WordNet                                              WNGLOSS(7WN)



                              therefore cannot be processed in an
                              algorithmic manner.

     group                    Verb senses that similar in meaning
                              and thus manually grouped together.

     gloss                    Definition and/or example sentences
                              for a synset.

     head synset              Synset in an adjective cluster con-
                              taining  at least one word that has
                              a direct antonym.

     holonym                  The name of the whole of which  the
                              meronym names a part.  Y is a holo-
                              nym of X if X is a part of Y.

     hypernym                 The generic term used to  designate
                              a    whole    class   of   specific
                              instances.  Y is a hypernym of X if
                              X is a (kind of) Y.

     hyponym                  The specific term used to designate
                              a  member of a class.  X is a hypo-
                              nym of Y if X is a (kind of) Y.

     indirect antonym         An adjective in a satellite  synset
                              that does not have a direct antonym
                              has an indirect  antonyms  via  the
                              direct antonym of the head synset.

     lemma                    Lower case ASCII text  of  word  as
                              found in the WordNet database index
                              files.  Usually the base form for a
                              word or collocation.

     lexical pointer          A lexical pointer indicates a rela-
                              tion between words in synsets (word
                              forms).

     lexicographer file       Files containing the raw  data  for
                              WordNet  synsets,  edited  by lexi-
                              cographers, that are input  to  the
                              grind program to generate a WordNet
                              database.

     lexicographer id (lex id)
                              A  decimal   integer   that,   when
                              appended onto lemma, uniquely iden-
                              tifies a sense within a  lexicogra-
                              pher file.




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     monosemous               Having only one sense in a  syntac-
                              tic category.

     meronym                  The name of a constituent part  of,
                              the  substance  of,  or a member of
                              something.  X is a meronym of Y  if
                              X is a part of Y.

     part of speech           WordNet defines "part of speech" as
                              either  noun,  verb,  adjective, or
                              adverb.     Same    as    syntactic
                              category.

     participial adjective    An adjective that is derived from a
                              verb.

     pertainym                A relational adjective.  Adjectives
                              that  are  pertainyms  are  usually
                              defined by such phrases as  "of  or
                              pertaining  to"  and  do  not  have
                              antonyms.  A pertainym can point to
                              a noun or another pertainym.

     polysemous               Having more than  one  sense  in  a
                              syntactic category.

     polysemy count           Number of senses of  a  word  in  a
                              syntactic category, in WordNet.

     postnominal              A postnominal adjective occurs only
                              immediately following the noun that
                              it modifies.

     predicative              An adjective that can be used  only
                              in  predicate positions.  If X is a
                              predicate adjective, it can be used
                              in such phrases as "it is X".

     prenominal               An adjective that  can  occur  only
                              before the noun that it modifies.

     satellite synset         Synset  in  an  adjective   cluster
                              representing   a  concept  that  is
                              similar in meaning to  the  concept
                              represented by its head synset.

     semantic concordance     A textual corpus (Brown Corpus) and
                              a  lexicon  (WordNet)  so  combined
                              that every substantive word in  the
                              text  is  linked to its appropriate
                              sense in the lexicon via a semantic
                              tag.



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WordNet                                              WNGLOSS(7WN)



     semantic tag             A pointer from a  text  file  to  a
                              specific  sense  of  a  word in the
                              WordNet database.  A  semantic  tag
                              in   a   semantic   concordance  is
                              represented by a sense key.

     semantic pointer         A  semantic  pointer  indicates   a
                              relation   between   synsets  (word
                              meanings).

     sense                    A meaning of  a  word  in  WordNet.
                              Each  sense  of a word is in a dif-
                              ferent synset.

     sense key                Information  necessary  to  find  a
                              sense  in  the WordNet database.  A
                              sense key combines  a  lemma  field
                              and codes for the synset type, lex-
                              icographer id,  lexicographer  file
                              number,  and  information  about  a
                              satellite's   head    synset,    if
                              required.   See senseidx(5WN) for a
                              description  of  the  format  of  a
                              sense key.

     subordinate              Same as hyponym.

     superordinate            Same as hypernym.

     synset                   A synonym set; a set of words  that
                              are  interchangeable  in  some con-
                              text.

     troponym                 A verb expressing a specific manner
                              elaboration  of another verb.  X is
                              a troponym of Y if to X is to Y  in
                              some manner.

     unique beginner          A noun synset  with  no  superordi-
                              nate.















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