Looking up Synsets for a word in WordNet
WordNet is a lexical database for the English language. In other words, it's a dictionary designed specifically for natural language processing.
NLTK comes with a simple interface to look up words in WordNet. What you get is a list of Synset instances, which are groupings of synonymous words that express the same concept. Many words have only one Synset, but some have several. In this recipe, we'll explore a single Synset, and in the next recipe, we'll look at several in more detail.
Getting ready
Be sure you've unzipped the wordnet corpus at nltk_data/corpora/wordnet. This will allow WordNetCorpusReader to access it.
How to do it...
Now we're going to look up the Synset for cookbook, and explore some of the ...
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