Princeton University finalized major iterations of WordNet, a massive, human-curated lexical database of the English language that grouped words into cognitive synsets, providing symbolic AI and natural language processors with a clean semantic map of human language relationships.
Part of the 30 AI Roots Facts: The Era of Supercomputing & Deep Learning Seeds (1996–2000) archive. HistoricallyVerified
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