Sentence examples for hyponymy from inspiring English sources
noun
The semantic relation between hyponyms; the quality of being hyponymous.
The most actively researched approach to knowledge extraction from text in the last two decades has been the indirect one, beginning with a paper by Marti Hearst demonstrating that hyponymy relations could be rather simply and effectively discovered by the use of lexicosyntactic extraction patterns (Hearst 1992).
In his view, lexical competence has two aspects: an inferential aspect, underlying performances such as semantically based inference and the command of synonymy, hyponymy and other semantic relations; and a referential aspect, which is in charge of performances such as naming (e.g., calling a horse 'horse') and application (e.g., answering the question "Are there any spoons in the drawer?").
Relations other than hyponymy that have been targeted, of relevance to language understanding, include part-of relations, causal relations, and telic relations (such as that the use of milk is to drink it).
