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    <p>I am trying to find words (specifically physical objects) related to a single word. For example:</p> <p><strong>Tennis</strong>: tennis racket, tennis ball, tennis shoe</p> <p><strong>Snooker</strong>: snooker cue, snooker ball, chalk </p> <p><strong>Chess</strong>: chessboard, chess piece</p> <p><strong>Bookcase</strong>: book</p> <p>I have tried to use WordNet, specifically the meronym semantic relationship; however, this method is not consistent as the results below show:</p> <p><strong>Tennis</strong>: serve, volley, foot-fault, set point, return, advantage</p> <p><strong>Snooker</strong>: <em>nothing</em></p> <p><strong>Chess</strong>: chess move, checkerboard (whose own meronym relationships shows ‘square’ &amp; 'diagonal') </p> <p><strong>Bookcase</strong>: shelve</p> <p>Weighting of terms will eventually be required, but that is not really a concern now.</p> <p>Anyone have any suggestions on how to do this? </p> <hr> <p>Just an update: Ended up using a mixture of both Jeff's and StompChicken's answers.</p> <p>The quality of information retrieved from Wikipedia is excellent, specifically how (unsurprisingly) there is so much relevant information (in comparison to some corpora where terms such as 'blog' and 'ipod' do not exist).</p> <p>The range of results from Wikipedia is the best part. The software is able to match terms such as (lists cut for brevity):</p> <ul> <li>golf: [ball, iron, tee, bag, club]</li> <li>photography: [camera, film, photograph, art, image] </li> <li>fishing: [fish, net, hook, trap, bait, lure, rod]</li> </ul> <p>The biggest problem is classifying certain words as physical artefacts; default WordNet is not a reliable resource as many terms (such as 'ipod', and even 'trampolining') do not exist in it.</p>
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    1. COHi, I tried this approach, but the results were often times random and unrelated to the search query. Could you elaborate on what you did? For instance, did you use backlinks, links, and categories from Wikipedia?
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