Wartościowanie osób z otyłością w polskim wordnecie
Valuing obese people in the Wordnet of Polish

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a way of evaluation of obese people in the Wordnet (Słowosieć)− a relational semantic dictionary of the Polish language available on-line at http://plwordnet.pwr.wroc.pl/wordnet/. Three dimensions in which an obese person is evaluated are analyzed:appearance, activities undertaken, relationships with the environment. The study shows thatthe obese person is too big, common, clumsy, annoying and disgusting. Obese people do nottake care of themselves, because they are lazy. Lexicon characterized obese people is valuednegatively, which can be seen both in expositions, emotional annotations „strong negative”,„weak negative”, as well as in examples of use.

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