<s>
MindNet	B-Application
is	O
the	O
name	O
of	O
several	O
automatically	O
acquired	O
databases	O
of	O
lexico-semantic	O
relations	O
developed	O
by	O
members	O
of	O
the	O
Natural	O
Language	O
Processing	O
Group	O
at	O
Microsoft	O
Research	O
during	O
the	O
1990s	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
considered	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
world	O
's	O
largest	O
lexicons	O
and	O
databases	O
that	O
could	O
make	O
automatic	O
semantic	O
descriptions	O
along	O
with	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
,	O
FrameNet	B-General_Concept
,	O
HowNet	O
,	O
and	O
Integrated	O
Linguistic	O
Database	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
particularly	O
distinguished	O
from	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
by	O
the	O
way	O
it	O
was	O
created	O
automatically	O
from	O
a	O
dictionary	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MindNet	B-Application
was	O
designed	O
to	O
be	O
continuously	O
extended	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
first	O
built	O
out	O
of	O
the	O
Longman	O
Dictionary	O
of	O
Contemporary	O
English	O
(	O
LDOCE	O
)	O
and	O
later	O
included	O
American	O
Heritage	O
and	O
the	O
full	O
text	O
of	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Encarta	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
underlying	O
technology	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
same	O
parser	O
used	O
in	O
the	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Word	I-Application
grammar	O
checker	O
and	O
was	O
deployed	O
in	O
the	O
natural	O
language	O
query	O
engine	O
in	O
Microsoft	O
's	O
Encarta	B-Application
99	O
encyclopedia	O
.	O
</s>
