[ACT-R-users] WN-Lexical question

[Bruce J Weimer MD]

Re: [ACT-R-users] WN-Lexical questionBruno,

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:

(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) 

which is the first definition that appears when you search WordNet on-line:

http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dog&o2=&o0=1&o7=&o5=&o1=1&o6=&o4=&o3=&h=

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..........

Bruce.


---- Original Message ----- 
  From: Emond, Bruno 
  To: Bruce J Weimer MD ; ACT-R 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 9:41 AM
  Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] WN-Lexical question


  Bruce, 
  In principle, there is no first or last gloss in the lexicon. 
  There is just some higher probability that some lexical elements will be retrieved given a prior context. 

  In Wn-Lexical, a random selection, a set-difference or a set intersection constraint can be specified in the retrieval request.
  Also, in Wordnet every lexical entry and operator has a synset-id attached to it. Words having the same synset-ids are synonyms. 
  This way you can have a constrained retrieval of a specific gloss or word given a known synset-id. 

  I have attached to this email a new set of files for the WNLexical module. 
  In particular, you could have a look at the model find-all-synomyns.lisp as an example of getting a specific word sense. 
  More elaborate models could use the hyponyms and hypernyms operators. 

  Bruno


  On 6/15/08 7:56 PM, "Bruce J Weimer MD" <bjweimer at charter.net> wrote:


    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?

    Bruce.



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