Week 8 Answers
1) Consider the following statements. Which of the following is/are True?
a. Car is a hyponym of vehicle.
b. Flower is a hypernym of rose.
c. Vehicle is a hyponym of car.
d. Tulip is a hypernym of flower.
Answer: A
2) Which of the following is False?
a. Hypernym: From concepts to superordinates
b. Hyponym: From concepts to subtypes
c. Troponym: From verbs to the verbs they entail
d. Part Meronym: From wholes to parts
Answer: D
3) Two concepts along with their glosses are given below. Find the similarity score between concepts “book” and “novel” using the Extended Lesk’s algorithm. (Note: Do not consider the stop words.)
book: of written printed set a
novel: a long written work of fiction bound in pages
a. 2
b. 3
c. 5
d. 8
Answer: B
4) What is the Lin similarity between house and design?
a. 0.564
b. 0.433
c. 0.466
d. 0.473
Answer: D
5) What is the Resnic similarity between building and door?
a. 11.09
b. 8.30
c. 9.23
d. 4.70
Answer: D
6) What is the Leacock—Chodorow similarity between building and design?
a. 0.398
b. 0.699
c. 0.097
d. None of the above
Answer: A
7) Compute the scores for (i) the hub “colors” and the component “white” and (ii) the hub “colors” and the component “fixtures”.
a. 0.2, 0.25
b. 1.0, 0.0
c. 0.5, 0.25
d. None of the above
Answer: B
8) What are the scores of the hubs “colors” and “lamps” respectively?
a. 0.6, 0.4
b. 0.20, 0.33
c. 2.5, 1.5
d. None of the above
Answer: A
9) Which is the most appropriate sense for the word “light”?
a. colors
b. lamps
c. both colors and lamps are appropriate
d. Not enough data
Answer: C
