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| | Book Review October 1998 |
 | | Part III, about half the book, deals with representative applications of WordNet, from creating a "semantic concordance" (a text corpus in which words are tagged with their proper sense), to automated word sense disambiguation, to information retrieval, to conceptual modeling. |
 | | The authors of WordNet vacillate somewhat between a position that stays entirely in the plane of words, and deals with conceptual relationships in terms of the relationships between words, and the position, commonly adopted in information science, of separating the conceptual plane from the terminological plane. |
 | | Put differently, WordNet includes the relationship word W designates concept C, which is coded implicitly by including W in the synset for C. (This is made explicit in Table 16.1.) Two words are synonyms if they have a designates relationship to the same concept. |
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