with a preface by George Miller WordNet, an electronic lexical database, is regarded as the most important resource available to researchers in computational linguistics, text analysis, and many related areas. Design inspired by psycholinguistic and computational theories current human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs organized in synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexicalized concept. Different relations link sets of synonyms. Second, it provides a survey of representative applications, including word sense identification, information retrieval, preference selection process verbs, and lexical chains. Jones, Rick Kazman, Karen T. Miller, Katherine J.