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A. F. Salam and Jason R. Stevens

"Semantic Web Technologies and E-Business: Toward the Integrated Virtual Organization and Business Process Automation"

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synsets. These semantic relations between words include: hypernymy/hyponymy
(or superordinate/subordinate relationships) (e.g., a ???car door??? is-a-kind-of ???door???);
antonymy (or opposites) (e.g., ???hate??? is an antonym of ???love???); entailment; and
meronymy/holonymy (or part-of relationships) (e.g., ???lock??? is-a-part-of-a ???door.???)
(http://wordnet.princeton.edu/man/wngloss.7WN).
The following shows WordNet??™s hypernyms for the word finance.
1. commercial_enterprise
2. business
3. business_enterprise
4. management
5. direction
6. economics
7. economic_science
8. political_economy
9. committee
10. commission
11. nondepository_financial_
institution
12. minister
13. government_minister
14. assets
15. pay
16. credit
When many concepts are interconnected, semantic networks can be formed (Miller
& Fellbaum, 1991). A semantic network, or net, represents knowledge using graphs,
where arcs interconnect the nodes. The nodes represent objects or concepts and the
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