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| Grammar terminology help please? |
| Author: | Chris Newman |
| Date: | Friday, 19th Apr 2002 15:14 |
| Views: | 2,531 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds) |
| Category: | Language, Education, Arts and Events | | URL: | http://www.freepint.com/go/b17227 |
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I'm trying to implement a fairly simple search facility on a web site that groups different tenses of verbs, plurals of nouns, etc, together when weighting keywords. For instance searching for "animal" and "animals" should be exactly the same, as should "child" and "children".
I have come across WordNet (http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/index.shtml) which appears to do what I am asking for, however the terminology the program uses is way beyond me!
Through trial and error I have managed to generate the results I am after, for instance asking for antonyms of the noun "children" returns "child". Testing on verbs, "saw" produces "see" and "is" produces "be". However asking it for familiarity, hyponyms, meronyms and nominalizations amongst others also produce the same source word.
What I'd like to know is whether it what all of these terms actually mean, and whether there is any significance in using one over another for the purpose of extracting a consistent "base" word.
Thanks
Chris Newman
Lightwood Consultancy Ltd
chris@lightwood.net |
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