WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words in more than 200 languages.
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16 Facts About WordNet
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WordNet was first created in English only in the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George Armitage Miller starting in 1985 and was later directed by Christiane Fellbaum.
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WordNet includes the lexical categories nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs but ignores prepositions, determiners and other function words.
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WordNet is sometimes called an ontology, a persistent claim that its creators do not make.
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In other words, WordNet can be interpreted and used as a lexical ontology in the computer science sense.
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WordNet has been converted to a formal specification, by means of a hybrid bottom-up top-down methodology to automatically extract association relations from WordNet, and interpret these associations in terms of a set of conceptual relations, formally defined in the DOLCE foundational ontology.
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WordNet aims to cover most everyday words and does not include much domain-specific terminology.
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WordNet includes words that can be perceived as pejorative or offensive.
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The interpretation of a word can change over time and between social groups, so it is not always possible for WordNet to define a word as "pejorative" or "offensive" in isolation.
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Therefore, people using WordNet must apply their own methods to identify offensive or pejorative words.
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WordNet has been used for a number of purposes in information systems, including word-sense disambiguation, information retrieval, automatic text classification, automatic text summarization, machine translation and even automatic crossword puzzle generation.
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Princeton maintains a list of related projects that includes links to some of the widely used application programming interfaces available for accessing WordNet using various programming languages and environments.
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WordNet is connected to several databases of the Semantic Web.
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WordNet is commonly re-used via mappings between the WordNet synsets and the categories from ontologies.
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One of such projects was Russian WordNet patronized by Petersburg State University of Means of Communication led by S A Yablonsky or Russnet by Saint Petersburg State University.
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WordNet Database is distributed as a dictionary package for the following software:.
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