Wn Documentation

Overview

This package provides an interface to wordnet data, from simple lookup queries, to graph traversals, to more sophisticated algorithms and metrics. Features include:

• Support for wordnets in the WN-LMF format

• A SQLite database backend for data consistency and efficient queries

• Accurate modeling of Words, Senses, and Synsets

Quick Start

$ pip install wn

>>> import wn
>>> wn.download('ewn:2020')
>>> wn.synsets('coffee')
[Synset('ewn-04979718-n'), Synset('ewn-07945591-n'), Synset('ewn-07945759-n'), Synset('ewn-12683533-n')]

Contents

• Installation and Configuration
  • Installing from PyPI
  • The Data Directory
  • Configuration
  • Installing From Source
• Command Line Interface
  • Global Options
  • Subcommands
  • download
  • lexicons
  • projects
  • validate
• FAQ
  • Is Wn related to the NLTK's nltk.corpus.wordnet module?
  • Is Wn compatible with the NLTK's module?
  • Where are the Lemma objects? What are Word and Sense objects?
  • Where is the Princeton WordNet data?
  • Why don't all wordnets share the same synsets?
  • Why does Wn's database get so big?

Guides

• Working with Lexicons
  • Terminology
  • Lexicon and Project Specifiers
  • Downloading Lexicons
  • Adding Local Lexicons
  • Listing Installed Lexicons
  • Removing Lexicons
  • WN-LMF Files, Packages, and Collections
• Basic Usage
  • Primary Queries
  • Secondary Queries
  • Filtering by Language
  • Filtering by Lexicon
• Interlingual Queries
  • What are Interlingual Indices?
  • Using Interlingual Indices
  • Translating Words, Senses, and Synsets
  • Cross-lingual Relation Traversal
• The Structure of a Wordnet
  • Words, Senses, and Synsets
  • Synset Relations
  • Sense Relations
  • Other Information
• Lemmatization and Normalization
  • Lemmatization
  • Alternative Forms in the Database
  • Normalization
• Migrating from the NLTK
  • Overview
  • Equivalent Operations