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Formal ontology as interlingua: the SUMO and WordNet linking project and global WordNet

Adam Pease,Christiane Fellbaum-2010-04-01-Cambridge University Press eBooks
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WordNet is a large lexical database for English. With its broad coverage and a design that is useful for a range of natural-language processing applications, this resource has found wide general acceptance. We offer only a brief description here and refer the reader to Miller, 1990 and Fellbaum, 1998 for further details. WordNet's creation in the mid-1980s was motivated by current theories of human semantic organization (Collins and Quillian, 1969). People have knowledge about tens of thousands of concepts, and the words expressing these concepts must be stored and retrieved in an efficient and economic fashion. A semantic network such as WordNet is an attempt to model one way in which concepts and words could be organized.

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WordNet is a large lexical database for English. With its broad coverage and a design that is useful for a range of natural-language processing applications, this resource has found wide general acceptance. We offer only a brief description here and refer the reader to Miller, 1990 and Fellbaum, 1998 for further details. WordNet's creation in the mid-1980s was motivated by current theories of human semantic organization (Collins and Quillian, 1969). People have knowledge about tens of thousands of concepts, and the words expressing these concepts must be stored and retrieved in an efficient and economic fashion. A semantic network such as WordNet is an attempt to model one way in which concepts and words could be organized.

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WordNetComputer scienceOntologyLexical databaseNatural language processingArtificial intelligenceResource (disambiguation)Semantic network

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