Lexical Semantics

Terminology  

Lexical
relations  

Superordinate	vehicle	fruit	furniture	mammal
Hyponym	car	mango	chair	dog

A is a hyponym of B

Logical relation	If then forall x A(x) Implies B(x)
Set theoretic relation	the set of As is a SUBSET of the set of Bs

Part-whole_relations

Meronym	wheel	leg	hand	tooth
Holonym	car	chair	clock	gear

Another way to organize words

Frames (Scripts, models)

flight, fare, reservation, airline, airport,

Word Net  

Wordnet Intro

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dog
SENSE1
(dog.n.01
  (domestic_animal.n.01
    (animal.n.01
      (organism.n.01
        (living_thing.n.01
          (whole.n.02
            (object.n.01 (physical_entity.n.01 (entity.n.01 ))))))))
  (canine.n.02
    (carnivore.n.01
      (placental.n.01
        (mammal.n.01
          (vertebrate.n.01
            (chordate.n.01
              (animal.n.01
                (organism.n.01
                  (living_thing.n.01
                    (whole.n.02
                      (object.n.01
                        (physical_entity.n.01 (entity.n.01 ))))))))))))))

NLTK  

NLTK wordnet

Chris Potts  

Chris Potts's Wordnet page

Visual thesauraus  

Link

Discussion

Thematic roles  

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Conceptual primitives  

Roger Schank

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