WordNet: A Lexical Database for English George A. Miller Presenter: Cristina Nicolae
WordNet an online lexical database designed for use under program control English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs organized into sets of synonyms (synsets) semantic relations link the synsets
WordNet Statistics > 118,000 different word forms > 90,000 different word senses > 166,000 pairs (word, sense) 17% words are polysemous 40% have one or more synonyms
Semantic Relations in WordNet A semantic relation is represented by a pointer between word forms or between synsets. >116,000 pointers