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Cognition

Volume 41, Issues 1–3, December 1991, Pages 197-229
Cognition

Semantic networks of english☆

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Abstract

Principles of lexical semantics developed in the course of building an on-line lexical database are discussed. The approach is relational rather than componential. The fundamental semantic relation is synonymy, which is required in order to define the lexicalized concepts that words can be used to express. Other semantic relations between these concepts are then described. No single set of semantic relations or organizational structure is adequate for the entire lexicon: nouns, adjectives, and verbs each have their own semantic relations and their own organization determined by the role they must play in the construction of linguistic messages.

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    Preparation of this paper was supported in part by contract N00014-86-K-0492 with the Office of Naval Research, in part by contract MDA903-86-K-0242 with the Army Research Institute, and in part by a grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation. The work on WordNet that provides the background for the paper was done in collaboration with Amalia Bachman, Richard Beckwith, Marie Bienkowski, Patrick Byrnes, Roger Chaffin, George Collier, Michael Colon, Melanie Cook, Fiona Cowie, Derek Gross, Brain Gustafson, P.N. Johnson-Laird, Judy Kegl, Benjamin Martin, Elena Messer, Katherine Miller, Antonio Romero, Daniel Treibel, Randee Tengi, Anton Vishio, and Pamela Wakefield. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be represented as official policies of ONR, ARI, the McDonnell Foundation, or Princeton University.

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