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Etymology
From troponym + -ic.
Adjective
troponymic (not comparable)
- (semantics) Of, relating to, or being a troponym.
1991, George A. Miller, Daniel A. Teibel, “A proposal for lexical disambiguation”, in HLT Proceedings, volumes Human Language Technology: HLT '91: Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech and Natural Language, 1991, →DOI, pages 395–399:A method of sense resolution is proposed that is based on WordNet, an on-line lexical database that incorporates semantic relations (synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, meronymy, causal and troponymic entailment) as labeled pointers between word senses. With WordNet, it is easy to retrieve sets of semantically related words, a facility that will be used for sense resolution during text processing, as follows. […]
2004, Timothy Chklovski, Patrick Pantel, “VerbOcean: mining the web for fine-grained semantic verb relations”, in Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 33–40:Table 1. Semantic relations identified in VerbOcean. Siblings in the WordNet column refers to terms with the same troponymic parent, e.g. swim and fly.
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