15. The system of claim 1 wherein the semantic network includes the hierarchical category tree, the semantic network further includes a set of attributes stored in association with the synsets to limit situations in which one of the synsets is linked to multiple category chains, thereby increasing speed of linguistic analysis.
15. The system of claim 1 wherein the semantic network includes the hierarchical category tree, the semantic network further includes a set of attributes stored in association with the synsets to limit situations in which one of the synsets is linked to multiple category chains, thereby increasing speed of linguistic analysis. 16. The system of claim 15 wherein a different set of attributes is associated with noun synsets, verb synsets, and adjective synsets.