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Shawn
Shawn

Reputation: 639

WordNet: semantic relationship between different parts of the same object

I have a question on "WordNet: semantic relationship between different parts of the same object". The following is a paragraph I quoted from wikipedia:

For example, Holonymy/Meronymy defines the relationship between a term denoting the whole and a term denoting a part of, or a member of, the whole. That is,

'X' is a holonym of 'Y' if Ys are parts of Xs, or 'X' is a holonym of 'Y' if Ys are members of Xs.

Then, I want to know, if X and Y are different parts of the same object, what is the semantic relationship between X and Y?

For example, a keyboard and a mouse are all parts of a computer. What is the semantic relationship between a keyboard and a mouse?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 538

Answers (1)

Mostafa Shahverdy
Mostafa Shahverdy

Reputation: 2725

Notice that relation is something you, as a Wordnet developer, create. If you are developing Wordnet in your own language, then you might need to define some kind of specific relations. So, don't expect to have all kinds of relation in Wordnet by default.

May be the word you are looking for is only Sibling, but as far as I remember, there is no specific relation for two sibling Meronyms. If there is such thing, then it is a really bad anomaly in database, because from one side we collect Meronyms/Holonyms, and from other side we collect siblings of them which is something extra. In this case you need to use a query, which is:

For a given X, extract all its Holonyms with related Meronyms of those Holonyms

Upvotes: 4

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