A Lexical Relation Hierarchy

Nutter, J. Terry (1989) A Lexical Relation Hierarchy. Technical Report TR-89-06, Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Abstract

An extensive literature now exists documenting various lexical relations for representing information about words. This report summarizes the lexical relations recognized in a variety of sources. In addition, we claim that lexical relations themselves form not a class but a taxonomy, with a rich hierarchical structure. We present the outlines of this taxonomy, organize relations identified in a number of works under the taxonomy, and then give a condensed report of over 100 relations derived from the compendium, organized by their hierarchical status.