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Wordnet is like a dictionary in that it contains definitions and synonyms of words. It goes beyond a dictionary in that it also records relationships like hyper
by syats 6y ago
Wordnet is like a dictionary in that it contains definitions and synonyms of words. It goes beyond a dictionary in that it also records relationships like hypernym (broader) and hyponym (narrower), which can be useful for "understanding" (what ever that means) text. It is a graph, that connects different senses (called synsets), and also senses to words. It used to be released under some close license and poorly maintained, now there's a fork of it on github to which all can contribute.
- tasogare 6y agoWordnet has a "gloss" field but it’s very lacking if used as a traditional dictionary. Its value lies in the graph of synsets.
- compressedgas 6y agoThe problem with the gloss or example field is that it is per synnet and not per (word, sense or synnet) pair as it would be in a normal dictionary. This means if you try to use it as a normal dictionary the glosses tend to not contain the word for which you are listing the senses.