WordNet

A particular wordnet, a semantically structured lexical database, for the English language at Princeton University.

Proper noun

  1. A particular wordnet, a semantically structured lexical database, for the English language at Princeton University.
    • Copycat uses a network of concepts, called a Slipnet, to find correspondences between nonidentical objects, just as ARCS uses WordNet-style semantic information to find similar concepts. - 1996, Keith J. Holyoak, Paul...
    • Recently the Group started a project of creating a thesaurus of the WordNet type for Estonian. - 1997, Josephine A. Edwards, Geoffrey Kingscott, Language Industries Atlas, page 334:
    • By (partly) mirroring one another, general servers would probably share a similar general WordNet-like or CYC-like ontology […]. - 2001, Philippe Martin and Peter Eklund, "Large-scale cooperatively built KBs", Harry S....

Origin

Proprialization of wordnet.