0 a word whose meaning is included in the meaning of another word: --
"Horse" is a hyponym of "animal".
The second schema can be used to redirect the focus of a query from eliciting hyponyms to eliciting attributes of a given term.
Given the initial query string boat the first schema elicits terms that are hyponyms of boat, including speedboat.
In this way, we are exploiting information about hypernyms in the lexicon in order to access messages with hyponyms of search words.
They use interontology relationships such as synonyms, hyponyms and hypernyms defined between terms in different ontologies to assist the brokering of information across domain-specific ontologies.
The system relies on a large lexicon to find semantically related words such as synonyms and hyponyms for the query expansion.
If hypernymy scores were measured using a normal hierarchical scale with hypernyms above hyponyms, the amount of hyponyms possible would be fixed.
The senses are organized in a hierarchy of hypernyms and hyponyms.
Items recovered from this new query will represent hyponyms of a term which is itself a hyponym of a previous query.
