Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database<sup>*</sup>
International Journal of LexicographyPublished 1 January 1990
George A. Miller, Richard Beckwith, Christiane Fellbaum, Derek Gross, Katherine Miller
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Standard alphabetical procedures for organizing lexical information put together words that are spelled alike and scatter words with similar or related meanings haphazardly through the list.
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WordNet is an on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, and adjectives are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.
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