Hypernymy Relation

A Hypernymy Relation is a word sense relation with an inverse relation to a hyponymy relation (between a hypernym and its child word).

• Context:
  • It can be associated with a Hypernym Relation Mention.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • Hypernymy(dog,cat) → True.
  • Hypernymy(animal,dog) → False.
  • Hypernymy(animal,cat) → False.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Hyponym Relation.
  • Meronym Relation.
• See: Hypernym Extraction, Is-A Statement, Definitional Statement.

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