Adjective satellite

[nq:1]What is an 'adjective satellite'? It appeared for several words in a friends PDA dictionary. The phrase also gets 14,200 hits in Google (often seen in the company of 'synset', whatever that is).[/nq]
I checked M-W to see if there was a meaning of "adjective" different from the one we know and love. How about this one:
2 : not standing by itself : DEPENDENT

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[nq:1]What is an 'adjective satellite'? It appeared for several words in a friends PDA dictionary. The phrase also gets 14,200 hits in Google (often seen in the company of 'synset', whatever that is).[/nq]
"Synset" is obviously a fancy spelling adopted by a group of people who meet for immoral purposes: cf "Hellfire Club". An "adjective satellite", therefore, is as clearly a euphemism for "***

[nq:1]What is an 'adjective satellite'? It appeared for several words in a friends PDA dictionary. The phrase also gets 14,200 hits in Google (often seen in the company of 'synset', whatever that is).[/nq]
Googling on "all of the words" "synset" and "exact phrase" "adjective satellite" gives me only 46 hits, but the abstracts seem ominously abstruse.
I get the feeling this is something som

[nq:2]What is an 'adjective satellite'? It appeared for several words ... (often seen in the company of 'synset', whatever that is).[/nq]
[nq:1]Googling on "all of the words" "synset" and "exact phrase" "adjective satellite" gives me only 46 hits, but the abstracts seem ominously abstruse.[/nq]
Synset is supposed to be a machine readable set of words ordered by meaning, a synonym set. I th

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[nq:1]Synset is supposed to be a machine readable set of words ordered by meaning, a synonym set. I think that ... orbital satellites as an analogy. If Y is a satellite of X, then Y has some close relation to X.[/nq]
If that's all there is to it, it seems a tautology: Y is adjective to X.

How about its being one of those phrases where the adjective, in this

[nq:1]What is an 'adjective satellite'? It appeared for several words in a friends PDA dictionary. The phrase also gets 14,200 hits in Google (often seen in the company of 'synset', whatever that is).[/nq]
I assume you are talking about WordNet.
According to section 3.3.1 of Philpot, Fleischmann, and Hovy (2003): (I'll forego the "et alia" since I know Ed Hovy)
'Each synset has associa

To clarify slightly:
Certain adjectives bind minimal meaning. e.g. "dry", "good", &tc. Each of these is the center of an adjective synset in WN.

Adjective satellites imposes additional commitments on top of the meaning of the central adjective, e.g. "arid" = "dry" + a particular context (i.e. climates)

What is an 'adjective satellite'?
It appeared for several words in a friend's PDA dictionary. The phrase also gets 14,200 hits in Google (often seen in the company of 'synset', whatever that is).

I assume you are talking about WordNet.
According to section 3.3.1 of Philpot, Fleischmann, and Hovy (2003): (I'll forego the "et alia" since I know Ed Hovy)
'Each synset has associat

[nq:1]That must be it. So, for that dictionary we would expect 'dry' to be announced as an 'adjective center'?[/nq]
Yes, as long as they are in the habit of announcing the adjective centers.
Given that these terms are obfuscatory, I have no idea why anyone would intentionally put them in a dictionary intended for human consumption.

Joseph

What is an 'adjective satellite'?
It appeared for several words in a friend's PDA dictionary. The phrase also gets 14,200 hits in Google (often seen in the company of 'synset', whatever that is).

I assume you are talking about WordNet.
According to section 3.3.1 of Philpot, Fleischmann, and Hovy (2003): (I'll forego the "et alia" since I know Ed Hovy)
'Each synset has associat