Remove self-hypernyms

[jmccrae]

Really no word should be a hypernym of itself, however there are 329 such cases.

This issue will track the progress of this task and may later by subdivided

[ekaf]

This is a nice feature, and not a bug.: consider the word "frame", where "frame" (a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror) and "frame" (the framework for a pair of eyeglasses) are both distinct hyponyms of "frame" (a structure supporting or containing something).

Other languages may have different words for each of these 3 senses, but in English, they are expressed by the same word, and there is just nothing to do about it.

[1313ou]

Hypernymy is defined at synset level, not word.

[ekaf]

Hypernymy is a relation between words. It extends to synonym sets by the associativity of the synonyms.

[1313ou]

Not in EWN: not a single hypernymy relation is defined as a SenseRelation. Technically they are all SynsetRelation(s). If you mean to say the relation is inherited by the synset's word members (induced by membership), this is trivial. If not the notion is alien to WordNet. Or maybe I don't see your point.

[ekaf]

You are right about the technical implementation of relations in WordNet, of course.

However, the hypernymy/hyponymy relation has been known long before WordNet, and is defined everywhere as a relation between words (just look it up in any dictionary). And consider the name "WordNet": it means a graph over words, where every link starts and ends with a word.

[ekaf]

In order to get back to the actual issue (hyponymy between different senses of the same
word), there were 316 in PWN 3.0, 323 in PWN 3.1, and now 339 in EWN 2020:

hypself-wn3.1E20-Output.txt

Many of these seem ok, however the list seems worth reviewing, because it may reveal cases where the two hyponymous senses could be merged into one synonym set. For example, there doesn't seem to be a real difference between the following two sense of "nan":

"nan" hyp: n1104568531 (your grandmother) --> n1102541576 (the mother of your father or mother)

[jmccrae]

I have collected all these self-hypernyms into forms that can be annotated by the community.

I have the following suggested actions:

• Merge the hyponym synset into the hypernym (i.e., deleted the hyponym set as it is a duplicate)
• Remove the word from the hyponym (first) synset
• Remove the word from the hypernym (second) synset
• Don't take action
• Make some other change

The links are as follows

1. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7oR9vcwRDJzzX0U_UN85KTuZ_Cd_G8dIn7MqIqUSo-Rjhsg/viewform?usp=sf_link
2. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScBZvZ9WvNaZzdWmx1b8fhw4jl0aBTVbmiAvj2CtVPuo7Tg1Q/viewform?usp=sf_link
3. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3VDcpfuSO7CSTSdNQef3oP5UcA6RzdBRA7INq8zoGtYBoew/viewform?usp=sf_link
4. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf58ONgEY0MXGZigSqYVO3yhu5AX_wcektY-PIjJ7_JpGdtGA/viewform?usp=sf_link
5. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYZ_rMevdj9GaDt42BhT1IjJcwVJU5_pDDHR5Zdq5xzqtwZw/viewform?usp=sf_link
6. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2SQAMvX2A16x2zGhjoa6nRlTsQ0h7uMw2p6Eve6JVj3TR-Q/viewform?usp=sf_link
7. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8fQsDcLjSk-6QEpwy9rWcDkbONdu4Wxd7_B2TcIUst-QaQw/viewform?usp=sf_link