Words with Wires: WordNet Explorer
In the Chapter 5 section "Word Up: Navigating English with JWordNet," we looked at a lexical reference system for English and worked with an API that can obtain the related words for any word sense. Words may be related by inheritance or by encapsulation; in linguistic terms, these are hypernym/hyponym and meronym/holonym relationships. WordNet contains many thousands of these relationships, and JWordNet allows you to follow the links between words. You could use this API to create an application for graphically exploring semantic relationships. The user could type in a word and select the desired word ...
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