synset
nounEtymology Clipping of synonym set, coined in the context of the WordNet project.
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Computing, Engineering, Human sciences, Information science, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A set of one or more synonyms that are interchangeable in some context without changing the truth value of the proposition in which they are embedded.
- The basic object in WordNet is a set of strict synonyms, called a synset. By definition, each synset a word appears in is a different sense of that word.1993, D. K. Harman, First Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-1): Proceedingshttps://books.google.cz/books?id=A81RmnI0l5cC&pg=PA344
- In some cases a synset that appears to be a logical choice for a query is nonetheless detrimental.1994, Donna K. Harman, The Second Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-2)
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- A synset is essentially what Sparck Jones (1964, 1986) calls a "run," which is the basic element in her theory of semantic classification.1998, Christiane Fellbaum, WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database
- In general, based on concepts from NLP and information retrieval, synsets are defined as a collection of data entities that are considered semantically similar.2019, Dipanjan Sarkar, Text Analytics with Python […] , Apress, →ISBN, page 522: