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during the 1990s. It is considered one of the world's largest lexicons and databases that could make automatic semantic descriptions along with

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, HowNet, and Integrated Linguistic Database. It is particularly distinguished from WordNet by the way it was created automatically from a dictionary. MindNet was designed to be continuously extended. It was first built out of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE) and later included

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and the full text of Microsoft

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. The system can analyze linguistic representations of arbitrary text. The underlying technology is based on the same parser used in the

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grammar checker and was deployed in the natural language query engine in Microsoft's Encarta 99 encyclopedia.

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