hypernym

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Examples of hyponym

hyponym
The lexicon search for semantically related terms included hyponyms and hypernyms up to two steps up or down the hierarchy.
The modifier house acts to distinguish this member from the other members of the set of hyponyms, for example another hyponym is speedboat.
Table 2 shows how we search for the set of strings representing the hyponyms of boat.
However, a word has more hyponyms than hypernyms.
This is because the hypernymy scale is reversed so that subordinates (hyponyms) of the superordinate (hypernymy) can be measured by increasing intervals.
Currently, we only use monosemous synonyms, hypernyms or hyponyms for any given word.
The prototype elicits hyponyms and meronyms of key terms using the headmodifier method outlined above.
Items recovered from this new query will represent hyponyms of a term which is itself a hyponym of a previous query.
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 system relies on a large lexicon to find semantically related words such as synonyms and hyponyms for the query expansion.
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.
Given the initial query string boat the first schema elicits terms that are hyponyms of boat, including speedboat.
The second schema can be used to redirect the focus of a query from eliciting hyponyms to eliciting attributes of a given term.
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