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synonym ring
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(information science)synonym ring - A list of words with related meanings used to broaden the scope of a word search. As well as returning documents which contain a sought-for word a search using a synonym ring might also return documents which contain words in the same synonym ring as a sought-for word. Synonym rings are produced manually and are usually specific to a certain field, e.g. legal knowhow.


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After a background discussion on wordnets, Kotze reports on a proposed methodology for the semi-automatic construction of synsets for Afrikaans in his article, Ontwikkeling van 'n Afrikaanse woordnet: metodologie en integrasie.
5]) of the ISA relation for all WN synsets along with the number of nodes dominated by g.
Synsets are linked to each other by different relations such as synonyms, hypernyms and meronyms.
 
 
 
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