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colonel720
20 years ago #2918

Zabaware's HAL assistant comes with a full lexical dictionary, complete with definitions, synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms, sisters, hypernyms, and meronyms. Perhaps a chatbot could make further use of such a dictionary (HAL only uses it to define words on request) - especially the hypernyms and hyponyms. For example, if you tell such a bot about your car, it would be able to infer that you are talking about a mode of transportaion. If you specify, saying "my ferrari is red", it can infer that you are talking about a car. This could be very useful in knowledge linking, for instance: "Human: I am going to visit my mother over the holidays." without any prior learned keyphrases, it can infer the following about who you are visiting:
mother, female parent
=> parent
=> genitor
=> progenitor, primogenitor
=> ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent
=> relative, relation
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
=> life form, organism, being, living thing
=> entity, something
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> entity, something

then, once it has picked a hypernym, for example: ancestor, it can then go ahead and choose hyponyms to become more specific: hyponyms of ancestor:

ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent
=> ancestress
=> forebear, forbear
=> forefather, father, sire
=> foremother
=> progenitor, primogenitor

perhaps a bot like this can even be made on the forge? does wordnet have these capabilities?