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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 there is no one-to-one mapping of form and meaning for derivational affixes, which exhibit 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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Fellbaum, C., Osherson, A., Clark, P.E. (2009). Putting Semantics into WordNet’s "Morphosemantic" Links. In: Vetulani, Z., Uszkoreit, H. (eds) Human Language Technology. Challenges of the Information Society. LTC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5603. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04235-5_30
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