Path similarity is extremly slow

Hi there! I have a problem with wn. The calculation of the path similarity takes extremly long.

Minimal example:

import wn
from wn import similarity

wn_instance = wn.Wordnet(lang='de')

sets_1 = wn_instance.synsets('Anarchie')
sets_2 = wn_instance.synsets('Fotografie')
print(sets_1)
print(sets_2)
w1 = sets_1[0]
w2 = sets_2[0]
print(similarity.path(w1, w2))  # this is extreme slow

What is the problem here? Does the graph searching just takes too long? And is there way to set a timeout value or something like that?

Best, Willi

[goodmami]

Sorry, I mean v0.5.0 of this library, Wn.

> python -m pip install -U wn

The German data still has some problems, but hopefully Wn won’t get stuck as easily as before.

[LostInDarkMath]

Thank you very much for the detailed answer! Now I understand better how it works 😃