List of valid relation types?

[pdesaulniers]

Hello! I'm having some trouble figuring out which relation types can be used in Open English WordNet...

The issue template for "Add a relation" currently links to Global WordNet's documentation (gwadoc): https://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet/blob/53330890db0d8dfb6a9b5f79c3a0d33de9bf2ad4/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/add-a-relation.md?plain=1#L16-L17

Meanwhile, Open English WordNet's README links to the Global WordNet Formats page, which contains a sightly different list of relation types:

• Some of them appear to be missing, such as masculine and feminine
• Some relation types seem to be listed under a different name. For instance, the document refers to domain_member_topic which, I assume, is equivalent to has_domain_topic in gwadoc.

Then, it seems like Open English WordNet uses a few relation types which are not defined in either documentation, such as destination, event, vehicle...

Also, many of the relations described in gwadoc seem to be missing in Open English WordNet (masculine, feminine, young...)

What are the valid relation types when suggesting new relations in Open English WordNet? Should I refer to gwadoc and the enumerations in scripts/wordnet.py?

[jmccrae]

Thanks for the comments. I guess it is a bit confusing.

You are right to summarize that scripts/wordnet.py gives the relations, that we actually support in this project. That is that we support most of those relations listed in the gwadoc repo, but not some like masculine or young (yet).

There are also a number of "morphosemantic" relation introduced from Princeton WordNet that were introduced in #132 but do not have a great coverage in the resource. These relations are also removed in the exports to the GWA formats so are still quite unstable.

The document at https://globalwordnet.github.io/schemas/ is out-of-date. I will go fix this now.

[pdesaulniers]

I see! Thank you for the information :)