## Adding Adjectives

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| Adding to the CYC® Lexicon using WALES
| Adding Irregular Verbs
| Adding Adverbs

Adjectives modify nouns. While nouns tend to be mapped to CYC® collections, adjectives tend to be mapped to CYC® attributes.

These relationships are asserted in the form of adjective semantic translation rules. Since attributes are grouped hierarchically in CYC®, these rules are often made about collections of attributes (e.g. PhysiologicalAttribute) as opposed to individual attributes (e.g. Deaf).

Adjectives are represented in the lexicon in three forms: regular, comparative (ending in "-er"), and superlative (ending in "-est"). If you only want to represent the regular form of the adjective, then you may choose the "Add regular strings to lexicon" button to add the string. If you would also like to represent the comparative and superlative forms, then choose the "Add irregular strings to lexicon" button to add your string.

Please contact the CYC® NL team for help on assigning denotations to adjectives.

Last Update: 03/28/2002