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
n
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) = ®