ENGLAWI

Section element

Description

section elements are enclosed in POS sections (pos tags). Such sections may enumerate semantic or morphological relations.

XML structure

The nature of the lexical relations enumerated in the section element is given by the type attribute. <!ELEMENT section (item)*> <!ATTLIST section type (morpho|semRel) #REQUIRED> <!ELEMENT item (#PCDATA)> <!ATTLIST item sense CDATA #IMPLIED qualifier CDATA #IMPLIED wikisaurus (0|1) #IMPLIED type (antonym|coordinate|derived|holonym|hypernym|idiomatic-synonym|meronym|near-antonym|near-synonym |pseudo-synonym|related|synonym|troponym) #IMPLIED> The type of items found in semantics sections (type attribute with semRel value) may be:

• antonym
• holonym
• hypernym
• idiomatic-synonym
• meronym
• near-antonym
• near-synonym
• pseudo-synonym
• synonym
• troponym

Note: some semantic relations (synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms and hyponyms) are also given in definitions when they correspond to a particular meaning. See further explanations.

Items corresponding to morphological relations (section elements with type attribute having morpho value) may have one of the 3 following types:

• coordinate
• derived
• related

The relevance of the relations such as synonym/near-synonym/pseudo-synonym/pseudo-synonym found in Wiktionary is questionable. Items having such type values are uncommon. However, we decided to integrate these relations as is in ENGLAWI. The choice to merge such different relations, use them unchanged or to ignore corresponding items is left to the user.

Example of morpholodical and semantic relations for polysemic in ENGLAWI:

Items may also include 3 other attributes: sense, qualifier and wikisaurus. The sense is a litteral that refers to a given meaning among those enumerated in the definition. The qualifier may indicate a diatopic or diafrequential variation, a usage information, etc. The wikisaurus attribute is present when the entry links to Wikisaurus, a thesaurus embedded in Wiktionary. In such case, semantic relations corresponding to the target entry are reported in the current one.

The semantic relations of the entry anarchy illustrates the use of the above-mentioned attributes:


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