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tasogare on July 31, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: An Open Version of WordNet

Wordnet has a "gloss" field but it’s very lacking if used as a traditional dictionary. Its value lies in the graph of synsets.

compressedgas on July 31, 2020 [–]

The problem with the gloss or example field is that it is per synnet and not per (word, sense or synnet) pair as it would be in a normal dictionary.

This means if you try to use it as a normal dictionary the glosses tend to not contain the word for which you are listing the senses.

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