Princeton Wordnet (Noun)
Meaning
A machine-readable lexical database organized by meanings; developed at Princeton University.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The Princeton WordNet is a large lexical database of English, developed at Princeton University, where nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of synonyms.
- The WordNet was created during the mid-1980s at Princeton University, initially for the English language.
- Princeton WordNet is a machine-readable lexical database which is organized by meanings, which is also known as synonym sets or synsets.
- WordNet was originally designed as a machine-readable lexical database, which followed the tradition of flesh-and-blood dictionaries organized by meanings, and developed at Princeton University.
- The Princeton WordNet database was initially designed with support for natural-language research and with applications built on synonyms of word collections grouped into sets.