From cowan@ccil.org Mon Jun 04 19:40:39 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 5 Jun 2001 02:40:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 16611 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2001 02:40:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 5 Jun 2001 02:40:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2 with SMTP; 5 Jun 2001 02:40:38 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1576m0-0003Rc-00; Mon, 04 Jun 2001 22:40:48 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] New words In-Reply-To: from Jay Kominek at "Jun 4, 2001 08:07:19 pm" To: Jay Kominek Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 22:40:48 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan Jay Kominek scripsit: > > What's WordNet? > > Simply: Its a dictionary. Well, no. It divides words into senses, like a dictionary; it groups synonymous senses into *synsets*, like a thesaurus. It expresses semantic relations between synsets, like neither. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter