MindNet is the name of several automatically acquired databases of lexico-semantic relations developed by members of the Natural Language Processing Group at

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during the 1990s. It is considered one of the world's largest lexicons and databases that could make automatic semantic descriptions along with

WordNet WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words that links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into ''synsets'' with short definitions and usage examples. It can thu ...

FrameNet FrameNet is a group of online lexical databases based upon the theory of meaning known as Frame semantics, developed by linguist Charles J. Fillmore. The project's fundamental notion is simple: most words' meanings may be best understood in ter ...

, HowNet, and Integrated Linguistic Database. It is particularly distinguished from WordNet by the way it was created automatically from a dictionary. MindNet was designed to be continuously extended. It was first built out of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE) and later included American Heritage and the full text of Microsoft

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. The system can analyze linguistic representations of arbitrary text. The underlying technology is based on the same parser used in the

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grammar checker and was deployed in the natural language query engine in Microsoft's Encarta 99 encyclopedia.

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