Wordstat 6 Computer Assisted Text Analysis

WordNet based Categorization dictionary

Dictionary information

Description: This categorization dictionary is derived from the WordNet® database to provides basic categorizations of noun, verbs, adjectives and adverbs currently found in the WordNet database into 44 syntactic category and logical groupings. Two versions of this categorization dictionary are currently available:

• The full version offers categorization of 70157 words into 44 WordNet lexical categories. More than 24,000 of those entries are categorized in more than one category.
• The limited version consists of 45973 unambiguous words categorized into those same categories. Unambiguous words are defined as words that are categorized in only one Wordnet lexical category.

Requirement: WordStat 4.0 (with English lemmatization option enabled) or WordStat 3.1 if the text corpus to analyze has already been lemmatized.

Note: WordNet® is an online lexical reference system developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University under the direction of Professor George A. Miller (Principal Investigator). WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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WordNet lexical categories and sample words

DIMENSION	EXAMPLES	NUMBER OF UNAMBIGUOUS WORDS	TOTAL NUMBER OF WORDS
I. ADVERBS
All	actually, deeply, fully	2417	2716
II. ADJECTIVES
All		8585	10430
Pertainyms	abyssal, genetic, intimal	1958	2847
Participial	kidnapped, pulled, sublimed	63	79
III. NOUNS
Act	abolition, badminton, diagnosis	2034	3879
Animal	abalone, bacteria, coyote	4233	4826
Artifact	accelerator, aquarium, candlestick	3647	5641
Attribute	adequacy, assertiveness, cadence	1388	2170
Body	abdomen, bronchus, collagen	577	853
Cognition	activism, amnesia, covariance	876	1664
Communication	alexandrine, allusion, cantata	1444	3022
Event	bonfire, conjuncture, diving	226	714
Feeling	ambivalence, appetite, cynicism	167	366
Food	appetizer, beer, borsch	622	1203
Group	army, bolshevism, Benelux	320	829
Location	Afghanistan, Alsace, Babylonia	1364	1833
Motive	agromania, egomania, incentive	19	30
Object	abyss, electron, granule	503	876
Person	adjuster, correspondent, creator	5652	7366
Phenomenon	aftermath, blizzard, depolarization	148	303
Plant	achillea, buxus, cultivar	3427	3896
Possession	benefaction, coinage, fellowship	170	420
Process	absorption, autoregulation, catalysis	292	503
Quantity	ampere, baud, carat	357	647
Relation	causality, fatherhood, relevance	69	226
Shape	azimuth, cuboid, parabola	76	216
State	aberrance, affluence, homelessness	1443	2158
Substance	Aldol, alkyd, cellulose	1297	1694
Time	bedtime, days, December	264	461
IV. VERBS
Body	bungle, disinfect, hibernate	91	386
Change	amplify, blossom, crystallize	511	1297
Cognition	amaze, brainstorm, diagnose	133	425
Communication	applaud, argue, circumstantiate	310	949
Competition	capitulate, equalize, outrival	78	311
Consumption	cater, gratify, quench	40	164
Contact	attach, bulldoze, collide	323	1321
Creation	annotate, confect, enact	99	441
Emotion	agonize, condole, exacerbate	66	222
Motion	clump, deflect, eject	170	762
Perception	cense, conceal, hallucinate	55	305
Possession	allocate, donate, hospitalize	121	480
Social	abolish, celebrate, demote	201	697
Stative	coexist, embody, incriminate	87	426
Weather	freeze, ignite, pour	7	59