Wordnet

with a preface by George Miller WordNet, an electronic lexical database,
is considered to be the most important resource available to researchers in
computational linguistics, text analysis, and many related areas. Its design is
inspired by current psycholinguistic and computational theories of human lexical
memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are organized into synonym
sets, each representing one underlying lexicalized concept. Different relations link
the synonym sets.The purpose of this volume is twofold. First, it discusses the
design of WordNet and the theoretical motivations behind it. Second, it provides a
survey of representative applications, including word sense identification,
information retrieval, selectional preferences of verbs, and lexical
chains.Contributors: Reem Al-Halimi, Robert C. Berwick, J. F. M. Burg, Martin
Chodorow, Christiane Fellbaum, Joachim Grabowski, Sanda Harabagiu, Marti A. Hearst,
Graeme Hirst, Douglas A. Jones, Rick Kazman, Karen T. Kohl, Shari Landes, Claudia
Leacock, George A. Miller, Katherine J. Miller, Dan Moldovan, Naoyuki Nomura, Uta
Priss, Philip Resnik, David St-Onge, Randee Tengi, Reind P. van de Riet, Ellen
Voorhees.