This entry is an extension of the Slovenian semantic lexicon sloWNet 3.1 (http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1026) which is enriched with semantic tags following the USAS ontology. The USAS ontology (Piao et al., 2005) is part of the UCREL semantic analysis system and is used for general language semantic description (https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/usas/). It consists of 21 major semantic fields (e.g., PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES [O4]) and more than 400 semantic subcategories (e.g., Temperature [O4.6], Temperature : Cold [O4.6-]) that group together words belonging to the same mental concepts. The semantic tags were translated into Slovene and then automatically mapped onto the sloWNet entries from the USAS semantic lexicon following the algorithmic steps described in the README file. This procedure assigned semantic tags to 41,135 unique entries. The semantic tags were also given concreteness scores, calculated according to the procedure described in the README file.

The file USAS_sl_conc.tsv contains the complete USAS tagset, including the concreteness scores of semantic domains, and their Slovenian descriptions. The file sloWNet_USAS_1.0.tsv contains lexemes from sloWNet 3.1 paired with the semantic tag of their most literal, basic sense as identified by the algorithm, and all the semantic tag candidates from which the closest tag was sourced, in a tabular format. The resource was originally used to facilitate metaphor analysis, but can be helpful also for other tasks such as text classification and sentiment analysis.