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The SPECIALIST Lexicon

Antonyms (AM.DB)

Descriptions:

Canonical antonym pairs in the Lexicon from our (5) source models are retrieved in this file.

Fields:

FieldNameNotes
1Index StringIndex String by removing punctuation and lowercase of field 2
2BASBase form of antonym 1
3EUIUnique Identifier Number for Lexical Entries
4BASBase form of antonym 2
5EUIUnique Identifier Number for Lexical Entries
6SCASyntactic category (value)
7TypeType of antonyms:
  • [B]: bounded antonym, if X = not Y, Y = not X
  • [UB]: unbounded antonym, if X ≠ not Y, Y ≠ not X
  • [AB1]: asymmetric bounded, if X = not Y, Y ≠ not X, where X is the negative/endpoint
  • [AB2]: asymmetric bounded, if Y = not X, X ≠ not Y, where Y is the negative/endpoint
8NegationNegation of antonyms:
  • [N1]: true/strict negative, antonym-1 is the negative antonym
  • [N2]: true/strict negative, antonym-2 is the negative antonym
  • [BN1]: broadly negative, antonym-1 is the negative antonym
  • [BN2]: broadly negative, antonym-2 is the negative antonym
  • [O]: Otherwise
9Domain Domain of is central to human life and way of living across times and cultures (generic). Such as quality, existence, possibility, quantity, frequency, physical_property, location, temporal, size and temperature.
10SourceSource of antonyms:
  • [LEX]: Lexical records with negative tags.
  • [SD]: suffix derivation
  • [PD]: prefix negation
  • [CC]: collocates in a corpus
  • [SC]: semantic in a corpus

Algorithm:

Antonyms (lexAntonyms) are released after 2022+ release. Please refer to design documents for details.