Wordnet and Visualthesaurus · posted by vaibhav bhawsar Mar 21, 18:22
I never knew that visualthesaurus was built around wordnet . Visualthesaurus presents a visual mapping of word relationships and presents an interface to navigate those relationships. In the beginning it was a free service but now they provide commercial options of this product.
You can choose to display Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs and adverbs and their in-between relationships.
At the visualthesaurus core these are the relationships that you can enable/disable to show on the map for your entered word.
I am not sure how each of these options map to the wordnet fucntions such as hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms but here is my attempt at relating visualThesaurus functions/relationships with that of wordnet.
Is a Part of is —> Meronym – Something X is part of something Y. Paper is part of book. Ink is part of pen. Earth is part of the Milky Way etc.
Entails —> If you are doing X then you are certainly doing Y
or from wikipedia entry on wordnet
entailment: the verb Y is entailed by X if by doing X you must be doing Y (sleeping by snoring)
Verb-groups as coordinate terms: those verbs sharing a common hypernym (not sure)
Domain Category, Domain Region and Domain Usage all seem to some sort of hypernym and hyponym relationships
Here are some further explanations of the relationships I found on the visualthesaurus site.
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