Open AccessWordNet Nouns: Classes and Instances
Author(s) -
George A. Miller,
Florentina Hristea
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
computational linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.314
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1530-9312
pISSN - 0891-2017
DOI - 10.1162/coli.2006.32.1.1
Subject(s) - wordnet , computer science , natural language processing , lexical database , artificial intelligence , noun , simple (philosophy) , part of speech , information retrieval , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology
WordNet, a lexical database for English that is extensively used by computational linguists, has not previously distinguished hyponyms that are classes from hyponyms that are instances. This note describes an attempt to draw that distinction and proposes a simple way to incorporate the results into future versions of WordNet.
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