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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!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bruce.</FONT></DIV>
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<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> Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:55
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ACT-R-users] WN-Lexical
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<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">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><BR><BR>On 6/18/08 11:41 AM, "Bruce J
Weimer MD" <<A
href="mailto:bjweimer@charter.net">bjweimer@charter.net</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT>
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face=Arial>Bruno,<BR></FONT><FONT
face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR></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></FONT><FONT
face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR>(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> <BR></FONT><FONT
face=Arial>which is the first definition that appears when you search
WordNet on-line:<BR></FONT><FONT
face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR></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></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR></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></FONT><FONT
face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR></FONT><FONT
face=Arial>Bruce.<BR></FONT><FONT
face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR> <BR></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT
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