WordNet Agent

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Purpose

The WordNet Prolog Database Package, which is freely downloadable, must be obtained from the WordNet Web site. This agent code can be used with either Quintus or Sicstus Prolog (because those are the Prolog systems supported by the OAA Prolog library). Some familiarity with WordNet concepts and terminology is required. Please refer to the documentation available from the WordNet Web site.

ICL Solvables

• wn_get_word_info(+Wd, ?Type, ?Sense, -Info)
  • Looks up a word in word net, returning a list of the args of s/6: synset_id, w_num, quoted word, ss_type, sense_number,tag_count.
  
  
• wn_get_word_definition(+Wd, ?Cat, ?Sense, -Def)
  • Returns the "gloss" of the Wd's synsets. If Cat and Sense are not specified, the synset is chosen according to its order in the prolog database.
  
  
• wn_get_synonymn(+Wd, ?Cat, ?Sense, -Synonymn)
  • Returns a single synonymn of Wd. If Cat and Sense are not specified, the synset is chosen according to its order in the prolog database.
  
  
• wn_get_antonymn(+Wd, ?Cat, ?Sense, -Antonymn)
  Returns a single antonymn of Wd. If Cat and Sense are not specified, the synset is chosen according to its order in the prolog database.
  
  
• wn_get_hypernymn(+Wd, ?Cat, ?Sense, -Hypernymn)
  • Returns a single hypernymn of Wd. If Cat and Sense are not specified, the synset is chosen according to its order in the prolog database.
  
  
• wn_get_hyponymn(+Wd, ?Cat, ?Sense, -Hyponymn)
  • Returns a single hyponymn of Wd. If Cat and Sense are not specified, the synset is chosen according to its order in the prolog database.
  
  
• wn_get_meronymn(+Wd, ?Sense, ?Type, -Meronymn)
  • Returns a single meronymn of Wd (i.e Wd is part/member/substance of Meronymn). If Cat and Sense are not specified, the synset is chosen according to its order in the prolog database. Type is the type of meronymn: part-of (mp), member-of(mm), substance-of(ms). If it is not specified, any meronymn is returned.
  
  
• wn_get_holonymn(+Wd, ?Sense, ?Type, -Holonymn)
  Returns a single holonymn of Wd (the inverse of meronymn, q.v.).
  
  
• wn_verify_participial_adj(?Adjective, ?Verb)
  Verifies that an adjective is a participal of the verb
  
  
• wn_get_verb_frame(+Verb, ?Sense, ?FrameNumber,-Frame)
  Returns a single frame for the verb (a frame encodes subcategorization and selectional restrictions. If a sense is not specified, then a general frame for the verb's synset is returned, if there is one.

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Implementation Language: PROLOG

Date last modified : Feb 10, 2003

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