hyponym

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Examples of hypernym

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In this way, the head-modifier principle identifies a set of terms related through hyponymy with the head of the compound constituting the hypernym.
The linguistic behavior of differentiated repetition manifested as hypernym links appears to impact the productive formation of a design concept.
This table includes the word "surround," which is, in fact, related to encapsulate as a hypernym.
More interesting, though, were the high number and percentage of hypernym relations relative to the other types of semantic links, even in comparison to repetition.
It takes less time to find a relation between words when looking at the hypernym relations.
When searching for a hypernym relation between two words, both relation types can be used.
However, a word has more hyponyms than hypernyms.
Currently, we only use monosemous synonyms, hypernyms or hyponyms for any given word.
These intermediate words are especially meaningful in the case of hypernym and holonym relationships.
Give the hypernyms of the senses/concepts corresponding to a given word form.
The senses are organized in a hierarchy of hypernyms and hyponyms.
If hypernymy scores were measured using a normal hierarchical scale with hypernyms above hyponyms, the amount of hyponyms possible would be fixed.
The use of its hypernym enclose yielded an additional 73 matches corresponding to 10 other distinct biological phenomena.
They use interontology relationships such as synonyms, hyponyms and hypernyms defined between terms in different ontologies to assist the brokering of information across domain-specific ontologies.
In this way, we are exploiting information about hypernyms in the lexicon in order to access messages with hyponyms of search words.
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