CS224U Homework 1

Use the WordNet website (or the WordNet interface in NLTK) to answer the following questions.

1. Identify the lowest common ancestor, in the hypernym hierarchy, of any sense of Stanford and any (noun) sense of Hoover.
2. Identify the lowest common ancestor, in the hypernym hierarchy, of senses #1 and #2 of the verb elect.
3. Find the meronyms of all senses of the word university.
4. Write one paragraph on something interesting, unusual, or exciting you notice in WordNet. Include examples.