Quote: WordNet is like an on-line thesaurus (synsets of synonyms) with short glosses and related words; antonym, hyponym, cause, etc.

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One's first impression of WordNet is likely to … [called synsets] are basic building blocks [for representing the meaning of a word form], and with nothing more than … to the synsets, it resembles an on-line dictionary … [Calzolari 1988]. … In an attempt to model the lexical knowledge … forms and synsets [i.e., synonym, antonym, hyponym, hypernym, meronym, holonym, troponym, presupposition, inclusion, cause, and similar].   Google-1   Google-2

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