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pythonpython-3.xnltkwordnet
rlms
rlms

Reputation: 11060

Get the word from a WordNet synset

Given a synset like this:

Synset("pascal_celery.n.01")

I want to get the word(s) it represents:

"pascal celery"

Currently, I'm doing this:

synset.name().split(".")[0]

but this doesn't convert underscores into spaces.

Is there an inbuilt way of doing this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1780

Answers (2)

Jonathan
Jonathan

Reputation: 11321

I'm a little late to the party here, but for posterity, I think you're looking for the .lemmas() and .lemma_names() methods on synsets.

from nltk.corpus import wordnet as wn
dog = wn.synsets('dog')[0]
dog.lemma_names()

>>>['dog', 'domestic_dog', 'Canis_familiaris']

From there, you can replace underscores with spaces, and you'll get what you need.

Upvotes: 1

Sylvain Leroux
Sylvain Leroux

Reputation: 52000

According to the source code of the Synset class there is no method to return exactly what you want.

You will probably have to rely on plain old Python replace:

synset.name().split(".")[0].replace('_',' ')

Upvotes: 4

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