Each entry in WordNet has its own entry and contains one or more senses(meanings)
Words aren't distinguished from one another based on pronunciation, so homographs(words that have the same spelling but different meanings**)** would be considered a single entity.
Senses contain:
- Gloss
Dictionary definition of a sense
- Synset
List of synonyms
Each sense is mapped to a lexicographic category. (Supersenses).
Sense Relations
- Hypernym
Relation between a concept and its superordinate.
More general terms for concepts.
eg- Food is a hypernym of cake
- Hyponym
Relation between a concept and its subordinate.
More specific terms for concepts.
eg- Corgi is a hyponym of dog
- Meronym
Relation between a part and its whole.
eg- Wheel is a meronym of car
- Holonym
Relation between a whole and its parts.
eg- Car is a holonym of wheel
- Antonym
Relation between two semantically opposite concepts.
eg- Leader is an antonym of follower
WNDB
- lemma
lower case ASCII text of word or collocation. Collocations(a combination of words in a language, that happens very often and more frequently than would happen by chance) are formed by joining individual words with an underscore (_) character.
- pos
Syntactic category: n for noun files, v for verb files, a for adjective files, r for adverb files.
- ptr_symbol
A space separated list of p_cnt different types of pointers that lemma has in all synsets containing it.
- synset_offset
Word id of sorts.
Each synset_offset in the list corresponds to a different sense of lemma in WordNet
- w_cnt
Two digit hexadecimal integer indicating the number of words in the synset(synonyms).