使用Synset.names() 获取同义词集的规范引理名称:
>>> from nltk.corpus import wordnet as wn
>>> wn.synsets('mass', 'n')
[Synset('mass.n.01'), Synset('batch.n.02'), Synset('mass.n.03'), Synset('mass.n.04'), Synset('mass.n.05'), Synset('multitude.n.03'), Synset('bulk.n.02'), Synset('mass.n.08'), Synset('mass.n.09')]
>>> wn.synsets('mass', 'n')[0]
Synset('mass.n.01')
>>> wn.synsets('mass', 'n')[0].name()
u'mass.n.01'
>>> wn.synsets('mass', 'n')[0].name().split('.')[0]
u'mass'
但请注意,有时同义词集由多个引理组成,因此如果您使用同义词集的表面词形式,则应使用Synset.lemma_names() 访问所有引理:
>>> wn.synsets('mass', 'n')[0].lemmas()
[Lemma('mass.n.01.mass')]
>>> wn.synsets('mass', 'n')[0].lemma_names()
[u'mass']
>>> wn.synsets('mass', 'n')[0].definition()
u'the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field'
在 wn.synsets('mass', 'n')[0] 的情况下,只有 1 个引理附加到同义词集。但有时不止一个,例如
>>> wn.synsets('mass', 'n')[1].lemma_names()
[u'batch', u'deal', u'flock', u'good_deal', u'great_deal', u'hatful', u'heap', u'lot', u'mass', u'mess', u'mickle', u'mint', u'mountain', u'muckle', u'passel', u'peck', u'pile', u'plenty', u'pot', u'quite_a_little', u'raft', u'sight', u'slew', u'spate', u'stack', u'tidy_sum', u'wad']
>>> wn.synsets('mass', 'n')[1].definition()
u"(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent"
要准确列出 wordnet 中的所有单词列表,您可以尝试:
>>> from itertools import chain
>>> set(chain(*[i.lemma_names() for i in wn.all_synsets('n')]))
>>> len(set(chain(*[i.lemma_names() for i in wn.all_synsets('n')])))
119034
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