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New relation type for masculine/feminine form #883

Closed jmccrae closed 1 year ago

jmccrae commented 2 years ago

For the small number of English words with feminine forms (e.g., 'actress', 'waitress') we should be able to link them to the corresponding masculine form. In the 2021 release 'hero' was linked to 'heroine' was linked by the 'other' relation but this breaks things and is not consistent (the change below removes these links).

jmccrae commented 1 year ago

I have created a working list of potential matches (based on Wiktionary) here:

https://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet/blob/issue-883-working/female-words.csv

As these words are sometimes even in the same synset, I will implement this as a sense-level matching

fcbond commented 1 year ago

Hi,

I was thinking we should make the distinction between concepts, where the words don't necessarily match, which should be at the synset level (e.g. King <-> Queen) and those where there is a morphological link (like Prince <-> Princess, Actor <-> Actress). Of course, in many or most cases, there could be both.

Can you give an example of male and female forms in the same synset? For consistency, it might be better to try to split them out, ...

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I have created a working list of potential matches (based on Wiktionary https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Category:en:Female_people&pagefrom=PROTECTRESS%0Aprotectress#mw-pages) here:

https://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet/blob/issue-883-working/female-words.csv

As these words are sometimes even in the same synset, I will implement this as a sense-level matching

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jmccrae commented 1 year ago

Here is a proposed list of changes

Link to gender-neutral entries

In all cases these synsets are already linked by a hypernym link

In some cases the 'gender-neutral' term is perhaps not so neutral, it should be considered if we want to introduce specifically male synsets for these terms. Note there are hypernym links here so this represents an existing error in OEWN

Link to form in same synset

We should probably introduce a specifically female and male synset for these:

Other link (including to masculine entry)

This case also probably needs two more specific senses for 'viscountess'

Novel masculine terms to be introduced

These terms all have obvious masculine forms that are not currently in OEWN, we should probably introduce these:

These are probably not worth introducing and the feminine member can also be removed