Schwab, Lafourcade, Prince, pres. by Ch. Boitet
Antonymy and Conceptual Vectors
Brief study of antonymy
nDefinition :
n Two lexical items are in antonymy relation if there is a symmetry between their semantic components relatively to an axis
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ÞAntonymy relations depend on the type of medium that supports symmetry
ÞThere are several types of antonymy
ÞOn the axis, there are fixed points:
ÞAnti (V(car)) = V(car) because #Anti# (car) = ®