ChainNet: Structured Metaphor and Metonymy in WordNet

arXiv:2403.20308v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The senses of a word exhibit rich internal structure. In a typical lexicon, this structure is overlooked: a word's senses are encoded as a list without inter-sense relations. We present ChainNet, a lexical resource which for the first time explicitly identifies these structures. ChainNet expresses how senses in the Open English Wordnet are derived from one another: every nominal sense of a word is either connected to another sense by metaphor or metonymy, or is …

abstract arxiv cs.ai cs.cl list relations sense type word wordnet