Situation -- a type of --> State (as in California, Maryland, etc.)

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Situation -- a type of --> State (as in California, Maryland, etc.) #333

Open rosariou opened 2 years ago

rosariou commented 2 years ago

Seems that https://conceptnet.io/c/en/situation is a type of https://conceptnet.io/c/en/state, where types of state are California, Colorado, etc. but 'ways of state' is 'add', 'announce', 'articulate', etc.

This creates a lot of noise.

VladimirAlexiev commented 1 year ago

Similar to this problem, these two lists are completely different and should not be joined:

state is a type of… en emotional state en attribute (n, wn) ➜
state is a type of… en government (n, government) ➜ en political unit (n, group) ➜ en administrative district (n, location) ➜

I see two roots of the problem:

concepts don't have definitions (that I can see), I'll post a separate issue
"state" has numerous meanings that are not disambiguated by ConceptNet

VladimirAlexiev commented 1 year ago

@rosariou I think that in ConceptNet, senses of concepts are mixed together (by design?) so it would not be possible to disentangle the two senses of "state". See #336 for more puzzling on multi-sense words like "render" and "coat".

I still don't know how this can be used to avoid confusion between senses. You can try systems in which senses are represented explicitly:

WordNet, which is used in ConceptNet
BabelNet, which is perhaps 20x bigger than WordNet because it adds a lot more datasets