Lexical semantic relations

Lexical semantic relations

1. Semantics

   • Study of meaning.
   • Meaning is important.
   • Meaningful

2. Ambiguity

   • One word ---> can mean multiple meanings
   • Example:1. "Cool" and "ill"

3. Types of lexical relationships

   • 1. Synonymy
     • Similar meaning
     • Example
   • 2. Antonymy
     • Opposite meaning
     • Subtypes
       • 1. Relational
         • Relationship
         • Example:
       • 2. Gradable
         • Existing of spectrum
         • Example:
       • 3. Absolute
         • Not on spectrum
         • Example
   • 3. Hyponymy
     • Words that are a sunset of another
     • Example: Dog is an animal.
   • 4. Hypernymy
     • Words that are a superset of another.
     • Example: Animal is a hypernym of dog.
   • 5. Meronymy/ Partonymy
     • Meronymy deals with physical part of something else.
       • Example: Thumb as part of hand
     • Partonymy: deals with abstract categories.
     • A words that is part of another
   • 6. Holonymy
     • A word that a whole made of parts.
       • Example: A hand is a holynym for thumb
   • 7. Polysymy
     • Similar pronunciation.
     • Related meaning.
     • Example
   • 8. Homophony
     • Similar pronunciation
     • Meaning is not related.
     • Example:

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