(((Attempting to turn natural human language into something machines can process... oh my God. It's like trying to build a crossword puzzle out of mercury while using tweezers.)))
Link: Proxem - Antelope - Lexicon .
"Synsets, lemmas and relations
"WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language. It groups English words into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides short, general definitions, and records the various semantic relations between these synonym sets.
"A lemma is the canonical form of each word describing a synset. For instance, the lemma of the plural noun “cars” is “car”. WordNet version 2.1 contains about 150,000 words organized in over 115,000 synsets for a total of 207,000 word-sense pairs.
"Semantic relations connect most synsets to other synsets. These relations depend on the type of word, and include:
"Nouns:
"Y is a hypernym of X if every X is a (kind of) Y: for instance, “cat” is a kind of “feline”,
"Y is a hyponym of X if every Y is a (kind of) X,
"Y is a holonym of X if X is a part of Y: for instance, “France” is part of “Europe”,
Y is a meronym of X if Y is a part of X,
Verbs:
"The verb Y is a hypernym of the verb X if the activity X is a (kind of) Y (“travel” to “movement”),
"The verb Y is a troponym of the verb X if the activity Y is doing X in some manner (“lisp” to “talk”),
The verb Y is entailed by X if by doing X you must be doing Y (“snoring” by “sleeping”)...
(((Hypernyms, hyponyms, holonyms, meronyms, and troponyms. And, uh, "entailments." You with me so far? Great!)))
