0 a word whose meaning is included in the meaning of another word:
"Horse" is a hyponym of "animal".
The lexicon search for semantically related terms included hyponyms and hypernyms up to two steps up or down the hierarchy.
The modifier house acts to distinguish this member from the other members of the set of hyponyms, for example another hyponym is speedboat.
Table 2 shows how we search for the set of strings representing the hyponyms of boat.
However, a word has more hyponyms than hypernyms.
This is because the hypernymy scale is reversed so that subordinates (hyponyms) of the superordinate (hypernymy) can be measured by increasing intervals.
Currently, we only use monosemous synonyms, hypernyms or hyponyms for any given word.
The prototype elicits hyponyms and meronyms of key terms using the headmodifier method outlined above.
Items recovered from this new query will represent hyponyms of a term which is itself a hyponym of a previous query.
