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Article: Sweetening WordNet with Dolce.
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- AI Magazine
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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The number of applications where WORDNET (Fellbaum 1998) is being used as an ontology rather than as a mere lexical resource seems to be ever growing. However, WORDNET is only really serviceable as an ontology if some of its lexical links are interpreted according to a referential semantics that tells us something about (our conceptualization of) "the world." One such link is the hyponym-hypernym relation, which corresponds in many cases to the usual subsumption (or is-a) relation between concepts. An early attempt at exploring the semantic and ontological problems lying behind this correspondence is described in Guarino (1998).
In recent years, we developed a ...