README.md

WordNet Blast

In memory access to the wordnet onthology.

DEPENDENCIES:

    boost 1.46
    wordnet-sense-index
    colordiff (for wntest)

INSTALL:

    cmake CMakeLists.txt
    make

TESTS: (Beta)

    make check

USAGE:

    #include "wordnet.hh"
    #include "wnb/nltk_similarity.hh"

    using namespace std;
    using namespace wnb;

    int main()
    {
        wordnet wn(PATH_TO_WORDNET);

        vector<synset> synsets1 = wn.get_synsets("cat");
        vector<synset> synsets2 = wn.get_synsets("dog");

        nltk_similarity similarity(wn);
        float d = similarity(synsets1[0], synsets2[0], 6);
    }

BUGS:

• Word Morphing is sometimes incorrect.

REFERENCE:

George A. Miller (1995). WordNet: A Lexical Database for English. Communications of the ACM Vol. 38, No. 11: 39-41.