Senorita in English Wordnet

[arademaker]

Synset

ewn-06353552-n (Interlingual Index: i69807)

(n) Senorita senorita%1:10:00:: a Spanish title or form of address used to or of an unmarried girl or woman; similar to the English `Miss'

Motivation

It doesn't make sense to have a synset for a Spanish word in the English Wordnet.. There are other cases (classifiedBy Spanish and German)

[jmccrae]

This word is widely used by English speakers with no knowledge of Spanish as supported by corpus evidence and other dictionaries, so I think it is part of the English language too.

[jmccrae]

As a side issue, we now support Unicode so we can add the lemma señorita also.

[arademaker]

Does this argument support also the other cases that I mentioned? German words? For "corpus evidence and other dictionaries", hard to be precise here right? What dictionaries?

It has:

1. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/senorita#English
2. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/senorita

It doesn't have:

1. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/spellcheck/english/?q=senorita

What corpus? How many occurrences count as sufficient for evidence? Sorry, I just intend to be more precise for decisions.

[jmccrae]

The other examples are "don", "dona", "senora", "Frau", "Fraulein" and "Herr"? I would assume all of these are fine too but I can check.

The guidelines (which are here https://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet/blob/master/NEW_SYNSETS.md) state that it must be at least 100 occurrences in Sketch Engine TenTen's corpus*. There are 3,788 for Senorita, so this is fine.

Similarly it is listed in at least one of our reference dictionaries (listed here https://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet/blob/master/DICTIONARIES.md), so it also passes here. As such, there would be a clear case for including this word if it was a new synset proposal... also the arguments for deleting a synset need to be stronger than for creating a new synset.

• This resource is not free and this IS problematic. I created issues Open Access Reference corpus #756