WordNet
Subtitle: an electronic lexical database
By: edited by Christiane Fellbaum.
Contributors: Fellbaum, Christiane.
Series: Language, speech, and communication
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
Subjects: WordNet.; Semantics -- Data processing.; Lexicology -- Data processing.; English language -- Data processing.
Description: WordNet, an electronic lexical database, is considered to be the most important resource available to researchers in computational linguistics, text analysis, and many related areas. English nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexicalized concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.

The purpose of this volume is twofold. First, it discusses the design of WordNet and the theoretical motivations behind it. Second, it provides a survey of representative applications, including word sense identification, information retrieval, selectional preferences of verbs, and lexical chains.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.