New synset "recipe" (directions for making or preparing food dishes)

[rwingerter55]

Lemmas "recipe", "cooking recipe"?, noun

Definition "directions for making or preparing food dishes"

Relation Hypernym: oewn-06801642-n (Interlingual Index: i72162)

• Lemmas: "formula, recipe"
• Definition: "directions for making something"
• Topic: noun.communication

Significance This meaning is included in all our reference dictionaries:

https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=recipe https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/recipe https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/recipe https://www.lexico.com/definition/recipe https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/recipe https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recipe https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recipe

[arademaker]

Why do we need this synset if we already have recipe in a more general sense? The cooking recipe is a compositional MWE anyway.

[jmccrae]

I would probably also agree with @arademaker. This proposal would create "recipe" as a hyponym of "recipe", which we try to avoid. The concept of "cooking recipe" probably doesn't pass the criterion of non-compositionality in our guidelines https://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet/blob/master/NEW_SYNSETS.md

[rwingerter55]

You are right, "recipe" hyponym "recipe" would be ugly.

But what about

"formula, recipe" hyponym "recipe, cooking recipe, food recipe"?

Compare for example oewn-08670545-n "space" and its hyponyms.

[arademaker]

The point is that "cooking recipe" and "food recipe" are both compositional in the first place! Except in situations where collocations help organize the hierarchy, we tend to avoid them.

" ... a few are artificial collocations invented for the convenience of categorization.." Christiane Fellbaum. WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database (Kindle Location 391). Kindle Edition.

[rwingerter55]

IMO "cooking recipe" is not an artificial collocation. Compositional, yes.

Cf. oewn-08670545-n "space", it has a couple of compositional hyponyms: (n) airspace, air space (n) crawl space, crawlspace (n) disc space, disk space (n) parking space, parking zone

[rwingerter55]

The synset proposed does not pass the criterion of non-compositionality.