UNL Dictionary

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Main article: Dictionary

The UNL Dictionary, or UD, is the inventory of the permanent Universal Words. It is a flat list of UWs in alphabetical order with their corresponding semantic features, but without any further organization or structure, which is expected to be provided by the other UNL lexical databases (the UNL Knowledge Base and the UNL Memory, namely).

Subdivisions

The UNL Dictionary is divided into three nested repositories:

• The UNL Core Dictionary contains only permanent simple UWs that are (presumably) shared by all languages
• The UNL Abridged Dictionary contains all permanent UWs (simple, compound or complex) that are shared by at least two different language families
• The UNL Unabridged Dictionary contains all permanent UWs (simple, compound or complex) that are lexicalized in at least one language

Structure

<dic_unl>
        <UWID>unique index (integer auto-increment)</UWID>
        <UW>lemma</UW>
        <HEADWORD>UW in English</UW>
        <SYNSET>synset in English</SYNSET>
        <ROOT>root of the UW</ROOT>
        <SEMSTR>semantic string</SEMSTR>
        <HYPERNYM>hypernym</HYPERNYM>
        <DEFINITION>definition of the UW</DEFINITION>
        <EXAMPLE>example of the UW</EXAMPLE>
        <LEX>lexical category</LEX>
        <ABN>abstractness</ABN>
        <ALY>alienability</ALY>
        <ANI>animacy</ANI>
        <CAR>cardinality</CAR>
        <GEN>gender</GEN>
        <POL>polarity</POL>
        <SEM>semantic class</SEM>
        <SFR>semantic Frame</SFR>
        <SLANGUAGE>source language</SLANGUAGE>
        <PROJECT>project</PROJECT>
        <AUTHOR>creator of the entry</AUTHOR>
        <EDITOR>editor of the entry</EDITOR>
        <REVISOR>revisor of the entry</REVISOR>
        <CREATED>date of creation</CREATED>
        <EDITED>date of edition</EDITED>
        <REVISED>date of revision</REVISED>
        <DATE>last update</DATE>
        <STATUS>current status</STATUS>
        <ASSIGNMENT>number of the assignment</ASSIGNMENT>
        <PROBLEM>problem, if any</PROBLEM>
        <BUG_REPORTER>user who reported the problem</BUG_REPORTER>
        <DECLINED>number of times the entry was declined</DECLINED>
        <REFUSED>number of times the entry was refused</REFUSED>
        <FREQUENCY>frequency of the entry</FREQUENCY>
        <CORE>position in the core dictionary</CORE>
        <UNIVERSALITY>degree of universality</UNIVERSALITY>
        <COMMENTS>comments</COMMENTS>
</dic_unl>