# Semantic Relations
Hyponomy: IS-A
- Forms a hierarchical relationship i.e. taxonomy
- Example: dog is a _hyponym_ of animal, animal is a _hypernym_ of dog
- Works best for concrete nouns
- Multiple inheritance: e.g., is coin a hyponym of both metal and money?
Meronomy: PART-OF
- Example: arm is a _meronym_ of body
Synonym
- Example: aubergine/eggplant
Antonym
- Example: big/little
Near-synonymy/similaity
- Example: slim/slender/thin
### WordNet
- A database of lexical relations
- large scale open source resource for English
- hand constructed
- organized into synsets: synonym sets (near-synonyms)
- synsets connected by semantic relations
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## References
1. Chapter 19, Jurafsky and Martin, 2019