[ACT-R-users] WN-Lexical question

[Emond, Bruno]

Bruce, 
This is an excellent suggestion.
Currently WN-Lexical is not making use of the word sense number, which
encodes frequency information, but not the actual frequency.
I will update the module in the next couple of weeks to add this
functionality. 
Thanks again for your interest.
Bruno


On 6/18/08 11:41 AM, "Bruce J Weimer MD" <bjweimer at charter.net> wrote:

> Bruno,
>  
> 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 
> <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 <mailto:bruno.emond at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>
>>  
>> To: Bruce J Weimer MD <mailto:bjweimer at charter.net>  ; ACT-R
>> <mailto:act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu>
>>  
>> 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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