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* Meronymy (A is part of B)
* Hyponymy (A is subordinate of B; A is kind of B)
* Hypernymy (A is superordinate of B)
* Synonymy (A denotes the same as B)
* Antonymy (A denotes the opposite of B)
* Meronymy? (A is part of B)
* Holonymy? (B has A as a part of itself)

* Hyponymy? (or Troponymy?) (A is subordinate of B; A is kind of B)
* Hyperonymy? (A is superordinate of B)

* Synonymy? (A denotes the same as B)
* Antonymy? (A denotes the opposite of B)

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* [1] "Computing Science - The Web of Words"

A semantic network is often used as a form of knowledge representation. It consists of vertices which represent concepts and edges which represent relations between the concepts. A semantic net is a [Directed graph]?.

Important semantic relations:

An example of a semantic network is WordNet, a lexical database of English.

The link and lexical structure of the Wikipedia might also be regarded as a simple example of a semantic network, with the following properties:

See also:

External links:


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