Reference: C. Fellbaum, A. Osherson, P. Clark. Putting Semantics into WordNet's "Morphosemantic" Links In: Proc 3rd Language & Technology Conference (LTC'07), Poznan, Poland, 2007.

Abstract:

To add to WordNet's contents, and specifically to aid automatic reasoning with WordNet, we classify and label the current relations among derivationally and semantically related noun-verb pairs. Manual inspection of thousands of pairs shows that the form-meaning mappings of affixes are not in a one-to-one relation and far less regularity than expected. We determine a set of semantic relations found across a number of morphologically defined noun-verb pair classes.

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