DATA HOMEWORK 1

Go to the WordNet site, http://wordnet.princeton.edu/ and do the following (by hand).

  1. Using the hypernym hierarchy, find the lowest common ancestor across all noun senses of the words Hoover and Stanford
  2. Using the hypernym hierarchy, find the lowest common ancestor of senses #1 and #2 of the verb elect.
  3. Find the meronyms of all senses of the word university
  4. Write 1 pgraph on something interesting or unusual or exciting you notice in WordNet. Include the data examples in your writeup.