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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bruno,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you for the explanation and code! I
suspected that there was a certain amount of randomness inherent in this
system. But I have a question - there are several definitions for "dog"...
but if I ask you to define "dog", you would almost
certainly pick:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>(a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that
has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds)
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>which is the first definition that appears when you
search WordNet on-line:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dog&o2=&o0=1&o7=&o5=&o1=1&o6=&o4=&o3=&h">http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dog&o2=&o0=1&o7=&o5=&o1=1&o6=&o4=&o3=&h</A>=</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In fact, the WordNet on-line responses seem to
ordered according to the most common meanings first. I was just wondering
if we could get at the definitions ranked according to usage......... it
seems that somehow they do..........</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bruce.</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=bruno.emond@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
href="mailto:bruno.emond@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca">Emond, Bruno</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=bjweimer@charter.net
href="mailto:bjweimer@charter.net">Bruce J Weimer MD</A> ; <A
title=act-r-users@act-r.psy.cmu.edu
href="mailto:act-r-users@act-r.psy.cmu.edu">ACT-R</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 17, 2008 9:41
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ACT-R-users] WN-Lexical
question</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">Bruce, <BR>In principle, there is no first or last
gloss in the lexicon. <BR>There is just some higher probability that some
lexical elements will be retrieved given a prior context. <BR><BR>In
Wn-Lexical, a random selection, a set-difference or a set intersection
constraint can be specified in the retrieval request.<BR>Also, in Wordnet
every lexical entry and operator has a synset-id attached to it. Words having
the same synset-ids are synonyms. <BR>This way you can have a constrained
retrieval of a specific gloss or word given a known synset-id. <BR><BR>I have
attached to this email a new set of files for the WNLexical module. <BR>In
particular, you could have a look at the model find-all-synomyns.lisp as an
example of getting a specific word sense. <BR>More elaborate models could use
the hyponyms and hypernyms operators. <BR><BR>Bruno<BR><BR><BR>On 6/15/08 7:56
PM, "Bruce J Weimer MD" <bjweimer@charter.net>
wrote:<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT face=Arial>I'm looking at
the example "wnl-find-definition.lisp" - it returns a random gloss for the
word... is there a way to get it to return the first gloss?<BR></FONT><FONT
face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR></FONT><FONT
face=Arial>Bruce.<BR></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR><BR>
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