What are synsets How to utilise them in nltk python

This recipe explains what are synsets This recipe helps you utilise them in nltk python

Recipe Objective

This recipe explains what are synset and how to utilize them.

Step 1: Importing library

Let us first import the necessary libraries. We'll import wordnet from nltk.corpus.

from nltk.corpus import wordnet

Step 2: Synsets for a word

WordNet is a large lexical database of English that groups together words on the basis of their meaning, thesaurus is an analogy for it.
To look up words in wordnet NLTK gives us a simple but special kind of interface i.e. Synset. Synset is a group of synonymous words that express the same meaning. Some words have only a single synset while some of them have several.

word = wordnet.synsets("dog")[0]
print ("Word name :  ", word.name())
print ("Word meaning : ", word.definition())
print ("Word example : ", word.examples())
print ("Word abstract term :  ", word.hypernyms())
print ("Word tag : ", word.pos())
print ("Word root hypernerm :  ", word.root_hypernyms())

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