WORDNET database access

Question

I have download wordnet(2.1) but i dont know how to access wordnet database?

Answer 1

There are both libraries and file-formats documented at the WordNet 3.0 Reference Manual. By the way, is there a reason you aren't using WordNet 3.0?

Answer 2

You should check out NLTK. It's the easiest way to access WordNet. It's written in python.

Just to show you how simple it can be:

>>> from nltk.corpus import wordnet as wn
>>> wn.synsets('motorcar')
[Synset('car.n.01')]

You can find further documentation here: http://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/book/ch02.html (scroll down for WordNet)

Oh and don't forget to actually download WordNet:

>>>import nltk
>>>nltk.download()

then just choose WordNet and download

Answer 3

If you are using C++, Wordnet comes with an interface on its own. You should find them in your WN distribution.

If you are using C#, then sharpnlp.codeplex.com is the place for you, they have a Wordnet interface.

Wordnet also has a Perl distribution, but I don't know if they can be directly used because I dont use Perl.

Best regards, David

Answer 4

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