Sentence examples for hypernym from inspiring English sources

Textual inference may, for instance, use WordNet hypernym knowledge to try to establish that a given candidate answer sentence supports the truth of the declarative version of the question.

It may also involve mapping hypernym hierarchies, meronyms (parts), or antonyms, as catalogued in sources like WordNet, into some form usable for disambiguation and inference.

For example, extraction patterns that look for noun phrases separated by "such as" or "and other" will match word sequences like "seabirds such as penguins and albatrosses" or "beans, nuts, and other legumes", leading to hypotheses that seabird is a hypernym of penguin and albatross, and that beans and nuts are hyponyms of legumes.

By looking for known hyponym-hypernym pairs in close proximity, Hearst was able to expand the initial set of extraction patterns and hence the set of hypotheses.