hypernym


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a word that is more generic than a given word

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There are lexical relations between hyponyms (travelers, sun-flower (traveler), steps, Sun, 'golden clime' (destination) and hypernym (journey).
The first question examines if an average level of hyponym imageability is higher than an average level of hypernym imageability.
The hypernym for all these that Burke used is "Dramatism."
This hypernym has the advantage to be already used in the context of various payments (EU funds or staff income).
Based on the attributes and lexical relations in WordNet, six types of vocabulary questions are defined: definition, synonym, antonym, hypernym, hyponym, and cloze questions.
(2) Linguistic measure computes the similarity between ontology entities by considering linguistic relations such as synonymy and hypernym. We used the synonym treatment which based on WordNet dictionary deals with the linguistic measure in Section 3.3.
O'Hagan (2009) considers there is an "evolution from unsolicited fan translation to solicited community translation now called crowdsourcing" and includes both phenomena within "the framework of user-generated translation (UGT)", this concept being a hypernym of the previous terms:
On the other hand, contraffazione shows the hypernyms atto ("act"), azione ("action"), copia ("copy"), and riproduzione ("reproduction")'; but the hypernym of contraffattore ("counterfeiter") is just individuo ("individual").
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[1] The expression "foundational literacy" is used in this paper as a hypernym also covering the early literacy, emergent literacy and pre-literacy concepts used in foreign sources.
"Disposition" in this sense is understood here as a hypernym of 'support', 'suspension', 'blockage of motion', 'orientation', and 'configuration of parts of an object'.
If Johnson's use of what he calls the "hypernym" takes its cues from the identity-shifting of modernist writers like Pessoa and Borges, it's also a pie in the face of a culture obsessed with the exotic and the authentic.