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What does hypernym mean?

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  1. (semantics) A superordinate word or phrase; a term whose referents form a set which includes as a subset the referents of a subordinate term.
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If you are using the WordNet package, you should be using program code to do recursive accesses into the data tables, descending down the hypernym tree.
Textual inference may, for instance, use WordNet hypernym knowledge to try to establish that a given candidate answer sentence supports the truth of the declarative version of the question.
The proposal in connection with taxonymy is that a taxonym must further specify a highlighted feature of the hypernym and must similarly highlight it.
We evaluate the various approaches comparing their hypernym suggestion with the Dutch part of EuroWordNet.
Besides, in some cases a hypernym is added to provide extra information.

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