Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database

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1. What are the contributions mentioned in the paper "Introduction to wordnet: an on-line lexical database" ?

2. What is the entailment between verbs like bequeath and own?

3. What are the common opposition relations among deadjectival verbs?

4. What are the common adjectives that are not gradable?

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The WordNet system this paper is an on-line thesaurus that allows users to find the word they are looking for.

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Like the backward presupposition relation that holds between verbs like fail/succeed and try, the entailment between verbs like bequeath and own is characterized by the absence of temporal inclusion.

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Many deadjectival verbs formed with a suffix such as -en or -ify inherit opposition relations from their root adjectives: lengthen/shorten, strengthen/weaken, prettify/uglify, for example.

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Relational adjectives, like nouns and unlike descriptive adjectives, are not gradable: *the extremely atomic bomb, like *the extremely atom bomb or *the very baseball game, are not acceptable.

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The semantic field containing verbs of bodily care and functions consists of a number of independent hierarchies that form a coherent semantic field by virtue of the fact that most of the verbs (wash, comb, shampoo, make up; ache, atrophy) select for the same kinds of noun arguments (body parts).

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As in the case of adjectives, much of the opposition among verbs is based on the morphological markedness of one member of an opposed pair, as in the pairs tie/untie and appear/disappear/fR.

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And because their syntactic and semantic properties are a mixture of those of adjectives and those of nouns used as noun modifiers, rather than attempting to integrate them into either structure WordNet maintains a separate file of relational adjectives with pointers to the corresponding nouns.

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Since relational adjectives do not have antonyms, they cannot be incorporated into the clusters that characterize descriptive adjectives.

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The problem with a topical thesaurus is that two look-ups are required, first on an alphabetical list and again in the thesaurus proper, thus doubling a user’s search time.

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That is to say, polysemy and synonymy are problems that arise in the course of gaining access to information in the mental lexicon: a listener or reader who recognizes a form must cope with its polysemy; a speaker or writer who hopes to express a meaning must decide between synonyms.

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There is some reason to suspect that the elaborate color terminology available in the languages of industrialized countries is a consequence of technological progress and not a natural linguistic development.

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In discussing these verbs, Fellbaum and Kegl (1988) point out that the data suggest a need for a fine-grained sub-classification of creation verbs that distinguishes a class of verbs referring to acts of mental creation (such as as fabricate and compose) from verbs denoting the creation from raw materials (such as weave and mold).

Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database

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1. What are the contributions mentioned in the paper "Introduction to wordnet: an on-line lexical database" ?

2. What is the entailment between verbs like bequeath and own?

3. What are the common opposition relations among deadjectival verbs?

4. What are the common adjectives that are not gradable?

5. What is the semantic field containing verbs of bodily care and functions?

6. What is the common way to describe opposition relations among verbs?

7. Why do relational adjectives have pointers to the nouns?

8. Why do relational adjectives not have antonyms?

9. What is the problem with a topical thesaurus?

10. What are the two problems that arise in the course of gaining access to information in the mental?

11. What is the reason to suspect that the elaborate color terminology available in the languages of industrialized countries?

12. What is the need for a fine-grained sub-classification of creation verbs?

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