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Niagara Falls is a hyponym for the concept of waterfall.
Hyponyms are more specific names that identify your topic.
Often hyponyms are proper nouns such as Ford, Chevrolet, or Toyota.
21cif.imsa.edu /tutorials/micro/mm/hypernyms/index_html?b_start:int=3   (576 words)

  
 Hyponym
A hyponym is a word that is conceptually included within the definition of another word, as scarlet, vermilion, carmine and crimson are all hyponyms of red.
Tulip is a hyponym of flower, for instance, but not a synonym.
In his classic formulation, the linguist C.E. Bazell stated, "There is a relation of hyponymy when one word may invariable be replaced by a second word, but not vice-versa, without change of meaning."
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hy/Hyponym.html   (84 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The alternative is to partition the nouns with a set of semantic primes to select a (relatively small) number of generic concepts and to treat each one as the unique beginner of a separate hierarchy.
That is to say, since the features that characterize a unique beginner are inherited by all of its hyponyms, a unique beginner can be regarded as a primitive semantic component of all words in its hierarchically structured semantic field.
For example, a canary is a bird that is small, colorful, sings, and flies, so not only must canary be entered as a hyponym of bird, but the attributes of small size and bright color must also be included, as well as the activities of singing and flying.
www.cse.psu.edu /~djoshi/presentations/notes   (1161 words)

  
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One of the where X is a hypernym of Y and Y is a hyponym of X. common hierarchies is shown below.
Connect the hyponym E to D at the bottom of the current hierarchy.
Because both the EDR and our two pernym and its hyponym in our hierarchy were treated as types of hierarchies had similar maximum depths, it was synonyms in the EDR electronic dictionary.
www.ijcai.org /papers/1123.txt   (3994 words)

  
 Hyponym - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In linguistics, a hyponym is a word or phrase whose semantic range is included within that of another word.
For example, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, and crimson are all hyponyms of red (their hypernym).
According to Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman's Introduction to Language (ISBN 0-03-018682-X), hyponyms are a set of related words whose meaning are specific instances of a more general word (so, for example, red, white, blue, etc., are hyponyms of color).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hyponym   (125 words)

  
 Hyponymie - Wikipedia
In der Linguistik wird mit Hyponym der Unterbegriff eines Begriffs bezeichnet.
Jeder Basset ist ein Hund, aber nicht jeder Hund ist ein Basset.
Ein Begriff kann auch das Hyponym mehrerer Hyperonyme sein.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hyponym   (274 words)

  
 GermaNet Semantic Pointers
Arm cannot be both a hyponym and a holonym of Körper.
As for verbs, the condition that Z is a hyperonym of both X and Y is necessary in order to guarantee that the antonymy relation is stated in a reasonable, competitive denotational range.
According to EuroWordNet(96), the "denotation of a hyponym is never equal to the denotation of a hyperonym, i.e.
www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /lsd/Pointers.html   (1252 words)

  
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Therefore, the term tulip is a hyponym with respect to flower, while tulip, rose and geranium are co-hyponyms, i.e.
For example, tulip is hyponym of flower, but in turn would be a superordinate of parrot tulip).
He says it "may be regarded as a sub-species of hyponymy: the taxonyms of a lexical item are a sub-set of its hyponym" (1986, 137).
aix1.uottawa.ca /~etithese/ldav/threerel.htm   (2504 words)

  
 Examples
Retrieve all the relations, of any kind, that have this sense of "dog" as the source.
Hypernyms of "dog", and their hypernyms, and so on until the links peter out.
Hyponyms of "dog" (n.) that are homophonous with verbs:
osteele.com /projects/pywordnet/examples.html   (304 words)

  
 hyponym - OneLook Dictionary Search
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "hyponym" is defined.
Hyponym : Glossary of English Grammar Terms [home, info]
Words similar to hyponym: subordinate, subordinate word, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=hyponym   (155 words)

  
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After the thesaurus is constructed, display the result of searching for the hypernyms, hyponyms, homonyms, and synonyms of "bug".
Hint 1: I have replaced the Hyponym and Hypernym classes with the class WeakSynonym (for lack of a better name).
Therefore, you may assume that if for example "sedan" is a hyponym of "car" and "automobile" is a synonym of "car", then "sedan" is automatically hyponym of "automobile".
www.cs.sjsu.edu /faculty/pearce/ooa/projects/rogers.htm   (427 words)

  
 Word Definitions (HyperDic online hyper-dictionary)
Hypernymy is the inverse of hyponymy: "vehicle" has a broader sense than "car", while the sense of "ambulance" is narrower, so "ambulance" is a hyponym of "car", and "car" is a hypernym of "ambulance".
This has changed with WordNet version 2.1, where the most general noun is entity, and every noun in the dictionary is transitively a hyponym of entity, so that hyponymy now provides a total ordering of the nouns.
This produces many new antonym pairs, and introduces a new property: the set of antonyms of a word's synonyms is now equal to the set of synonyms of that word's antonyms.
www.hyperdic.net /doc/word.htm   (751 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
For example, the syntactic relation between the words dog and animal in the sentence "dog is an animal" indicates that dog is a hyponym of animal.
To identify the hypernym and the hyponym in cases of nominal modification, they use the UMLS Meta-thesaurus, the Semantic Network, and the SPECIALIST lexicon.
[5], we use context patterns to extract hyponyms of a concept.
people.csail.mit.edu /ozlem/ontologies.html   (859 words)

  
 Amit Mathew
  Words are associated by synonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, coordinate terms, meronyms, derivationally related forms, domain, and familiarity.
  For example, a car is a hyponym of vehicle, because a car is a type of vehicle.
The other relationships, such as hyponyms and meroynms, show predictable results and are not listed here.
www.arches.uga.edu /~agm/web8351/WordNet.htm   (1008 words)

  
 Thinking XML: Search engine enhancement using the XML WordNet server system
For this demonstration, I restrict the pointers to hyponyms, which has the effect of generally finding other words that represent more specific concepts related to the search word.
This problem requires one refinement over the code presented in my last installment -- specifically, I need the WordNet server to return raw XML representing synsets, and not just full word forms.
Listing 5 is client code that takes a word and returns the hyponym chain as a Python set.
www.ibm.com /developerworks/xml/library/x-think34.html   (1779 words)

  
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This project is an attempt to extract a hyponym hierarchy from a given corpus.
The hyponym relation can be thought as encoding an isa hierarchy in that the
In the statistical expansion stage, the algorithm seeks to enrich the hyponym
nlp.stanford.edu /courses/cs224n/2002/yulin-li-report.html   (1030 words)

  
 hyponym - French-English Dictionary WordReference.com
We found no French translation for 'hyponym' in our English to French Dictionary.
Look for a definition in our English Dictionary.
Or did you want to translate 'hyponym' from French to English?
www.wordreference.com /enfr/hyponym   (49 words)

  
 Forum And Debate Moderators - Malcilliams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A negotiator who acts as a link between parties.
Hyponym: arbiter, arbitrator, conciliator, diplomat, harmoniser, harmonizer, interpreter, make-peace, marriage broker, matcher, matchmaker, mediatrix, moderator, pacifier, peacemaker, reconciler, second hand, translator.
Hyponym: abnegate, bate, bound, catch, confine, conquer, counteract, countercheck, cricify, curb, damp, deny, inhibit, limit, mortify, restrain, restrict, stamp down, subdue, suppress, thermostat, throttle, train, trammel.
our.homewithgod.com /malcilliams/other_moderators.html   (640 words)

  
 PROLOGDB(5WN) manual page
Each WordNet relation is represented in a separate file by operator name.
So, for example, if x is a hypernym of y, y is necessarily a hyponym of x.
The reflexive operator, hyponym, implies that the first synset is a hyponym of the second synset.
wordnet.princeton.edu /man/prologdb.5WN   (1282 words)

  
 hyponym definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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Search for "hyponym" in all of MSN Encarta
The words "tulip" and "rose" are hyponyms of "flower."
encarta.msn.com /encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861619697   (77 words)

  
 Hyponyms - Glossary Definition - UsingEnglish.com
Home > Reference > Glossary > H > Hyponyms
A hyponym is a word that represents different categories covered by a superordinate:
Browse the following links to other content related to 'Hyponyms' from the 'Vocabulary' grammar category:
www.usingenglish.com /glossary/hyponym.html   (56 words)

  
 Linguistic Phenomena/Devices
A concept that has another concept as a part (see also meronym).
A word whose meaning denotes a superordinate (see also hyponym).
Use of pet names, nursery words, diminutives, etc.
www.csi.uottawa.ca /~kbarker/ling-devices.html   (580 words)

  
 Thinking XML: Querying WordNet as XML   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Third serialized synset associated with the word "selection"
the person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for mayor" choice pick selection part-of-speech="noun" target="5453619"/> part-of-speech="noun" target="5455670"/> part-of-speech="noun" target="5455968"/> part-of-speech="noun" target="5456920"/>
I have edited these listings to break the
www-106.ibm.com /developerworks/xml/library/x-think29.html   (1474 words)

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