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Abstract : |
The study of lexical semantics has produced a sys-tematic analysis of binary relationships between con-tent words that has greatly benefited lexical search tools and natural language processing algorithms. We first introduce a database system called FreeNet that facilitates the description and exploration of fi-nite binary relations. We then describe the design and implementation of Lexical FreeNet, a semantic network that mixes WordNet-derived semantic re-lations with data-derived and phonetically-derived relations. We discuss how Lexical FreeNet has aided in lexical discovery, the pursuit of linguistic and fac-tual knowledge by the computer-aided exploration of lexical relations., |
