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English
Etymology
Clipping of synonym set, coined in the context of the WordNet project.
Noun
synset (plural synsets)
- (information science) 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.
- Synonym: synonym ring
- 1993, D. K. Harman, First Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-1): Proceedings:
- 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.
- 1994, Donna K. Harman, The Second Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-2):
- In some cases a synset that appears to be a logical choice for a query is nonetheless detrimental.
- 1998, Christiane Fellbaum, WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database:
- A synset is essentially what Sparck Jones (1964, 1986) calls a "run," which is the basic element in her theory of semantic classification.
Translations
set of one or more synonyms
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