Denise,
What did you use for: "rich domain thesaurus based on concepts and using a
richer set of semantic relationships" ? (01)
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> Leo,
>
> I think this is an accurate way of characterizing the differences - with
> one
> qualification. WordNet is only a synonym set - it is not a thesaurus.
> We
> looked at WordNet many, many years ago and found we could not use it to
> describe
> any of our domains in a meaningful way.
>
> We opted instead for a rich domain thesaurus based on concepts and using a
> richer set of semantic relationships. We actually find that the same
> relationships among the concepts can be used to define relationships among
> the
> entities (ie the values of relationships among entities in our data/entity
> models). The difference in the two is that the data model for concepts
> may be
> simpler than the data model for other types of entities. It is equivalent
> to
> the difference between the 'name of a country' and the data model for a
> country
> entity. For us, though, WordNet did not provide sufficient support for
> the
> concept level - name of the country.
>
> I hope this makes sense to others. My own thought model is so adapted to
> this
> approach that I'm never sure when I'm explaining it clearly.
>
> Best regards,
> Denise
>
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