Wordnet is a lexical database created at Princeton University. Its size and several properties it holds make Wordnet one of the most useful tools you can have in your NLP arsenal. Here are a few properties that make Wordnet so useful:
It’s common in the world on Natural Language Processing to need to compute sentence similarity. Wordnet is an awesome tool and you should always keep it in mind when working with text. It’s of great help for the task we’re trying to tackle. Suppose we have these sentences:
You might have stumbled in your NLP application development upon situations when you needed to get the “closest” adjective to a noun, or maybe you needed to “nounify” a verb. After poking around Wordnet I found a simple and pretty effective way to do this. Keep in mind that it is not error proof, but […]
