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WordNet: a lexical database for English
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Volume 38 ,  Issue 11  (November 1995) table of contents
Pages: 39 - 41  
Year of Publication: 1995
ISSN:0001-0782
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George A. Miller  Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Because meaningful sentences are composed of meaningful words, any system that hopes to process natural languages as people do must have information about words and their meanings. This information is traditionally provided through dictionaries, and machine-readable dictionaries are now widely available. But dictionary entries evolved for the convenience of human readers, not for machines. WordNet1 provides a more effective combination of traditional lexicographic information and modern computing. WordNet is an online lexical database designed for use under program control. English nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are organized into sets of synonyms, each representing a lexicalized concept. Semantic relations link the synonym sets [4].


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Leacock, C., Towell, G., and Voorhees, E. M. Towards building contextual representations of word senses using statistical models. In Proceedings of the Workshop on the Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge from Text (Columbus, Ohio, June 21) ACL/SIGLEX, 1993, pp. 10-20.
 
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Miller, G. A., Ed. WordNet: An on-line lexical database. International Journal of Lexicography 3, 4 (Winter 1990), 235-312.
 
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Miller, G. A,. and Charles, W. G. Contextual correlates of semantic similarity. Language and Cognitive Processes 6, 1 (Feb. 1991), 1-28.
 
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Miller, G. A., and Fellbaum, C. Semantic networks of english. In B. Levin and , S. Pinker Eds. Lexical and Conceptual Semantics. Blackwell, Cambridge and Oxford, England, 1992, pp. 197-229.
 
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