different between wordnet vs wordnets

English

Etymology

word +? net

Noun

wordnet (plural wordnets)

1. (artificial intelligence, linguistics) A semantically structured lexical database.
   • 2003, Cvetana Krstev, "Corpora Issues in Validation of Serbian Wordnet", in Václav Matoušek, Pavel Mautner, eds., Text, Speech and Dialogue: 6th International Conference, TSD 2003, ?eské, page 133

     Bilingual corpora can be used for synset validation in a more fruitful way, especially having in mind the request that all synsets from a wordnet for a language other than English have to be associated, if possible, with an English synset using ILI.

   • 2004, Helge Dyvik, "Translations as Semantic Mirrors: from parallel corpus to wordnet", in Karin Aijmer, Bengt Altenberg, eds., Advances in Corpus Linguistics: Papers from the 23rd International, page 312

     (if a document mentions dogs, a wordnet allows the inference it is about animals)

   • 2006, Paul Buitelaar et al., "Domain-Specific WSD", in Eneko Agirre, Philip Edmonds, eds., Word Sense Disambiguation: Algorithms And Applications, page 290

     This trimmed wordnet was used in a cross-retrieval test environment and compared with the generic wordnet and no wordnet.

Related terms

• WordNet

English

Noun

wordnets

1. plural of wordnet
   • 1998, Wim Peters et al., "Cross-linguistic Alignment of Wordnets with an Inter-Lingual Index", in Piek Vossen, ed. Eurowordnet: A Multilingual Database With Lexical Semantic Networks, page 221

     EuroWordNet is an EC-funded project […] that aims to build a multi-lingual database consisting of wordnets in several European languages.

   • 1999, Leo Hadacz, "Semantic Inference in the Human-Machine Communication", in Václav Matoušek, ed., Text, Speech and Dialogue: Second International Workshop, TSD'99, Plzen, page 354

     Wordnets include words of the natural language, collocations and various relations between them.

   • 2003, Dimitris Avramidis et al., "Approaching Wordnets through a Structural Point of View", in Peter J. Nürnberg, ed., Metainformatics: International Symposium, MIS 2002, Esbjerg, Denmark, page 49

     It is obvious that hypertext and wordnets share many common points regarding their fundamental principles and the objectives toward which they both aim.

Related terms

• WordNet

Anagrams

• drownest, sent word