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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Bruce, <BR>
This is an excellent suggestion. <BR>
Currently WN-Lexical is not making use of the word sense number, which encodes frequency information, but not the actual frequency.<BR>
I will update the module in the next couple of weeks to add this functionality. <BR>
Thanks again for your interest.<BR>
Bruno<BR>
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On 6/18/08 11:41 AM, "Bruce J Weimer MD" <bjweimer@charter.net> wrote:<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">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:<BR>
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(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) <BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">which is the first definition that appears when you search WordNet on-line:<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial"><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> <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> =<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">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..........<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">Bruce.<BR>
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<B>From:</B> Emond, Bruno <a href="mailto:bruno.emond@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca"><mailto:bruno.emond@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca></a> <BR>
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<B>To:</B> Bruce J Weimer MD <a href="mailto:bjweimer@charter.net"><mailto:bjweimer@charter.net></a> ; ACT-R <a href="mailto:act-r-users@act-r.psy.cmu.edu"><mailto:act-r-users@act-r.psy.cmu.edu></a> <BR>
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<B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 17, 2008 9:41 AM<BR>
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<B>Subject:</B> Re: [ACT-R-users] WN-Lexical question<BR>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Bruno<BR>
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On 6/15/08 7:56 PM, "Bruce J Weimer MD" <bjweimer@charter.net> wrote:<BR>
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</FONT></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'><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>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">Bruce.<BR>
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