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WordNet - A Ruby interface to the WordNet lexical database
require "WordNet" # Create a new lexicon object lex = WordNet::Lexicon::new
# Look up the synsets for "language" and "computer program" languageSynset = lex.lookupSynsets( "language", WordNet::Noun, 3 ) programSynset = lex.lookupSynsets( "program", WordNet::Noun, 3 ) # Create a new synset for programming languages, set its gloss, link it to its # hypernym and holonym, and save everything to the database. progLangSynset = lex.createSynset( "programming language", WordNet::Noun ) progLangSynset.gloss = "a system of human-readable symbols and words " # "for encoding instructions for a computer" progLangSynset.hypernyms += languageSynset languageSynset.hyponyms += progLangSynset progLangSynset.holonyms += programSynset programSynset.stuffMeronyms += progLangSynset [ progLangSynset, programSynset, languageSynset ].each do |synset| synset.store end
# Create a new synset for Ruby, link it, and save it rubySynset = lex.createSynset( "Ruby", Wordnet::Noun ) rubySynset.gloss = "an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming" rubySynset.hypernyms += languageSyn ; languageSynset.hyponyms += rubySyn rubySynset.write ; languageSynset.write
This is a Ruby interface to the WordNet lexical database. It’s mostly a port of Dan Brian’s Lingua::Wordnet Perl module, modified a bit to be more Ruby-ish.
The Lingua::Wordnet module by Dan Brian, on which this code is based, falls under the following license:
Copyright 1999,2000,2001 by Dan Brian. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
Written by Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
Copyright © 2002,2003 The FaerieMUD Consortium. All rights reserved.
This module is free software. You may use, modify, and/or redistribute this software under the terms of the Perl Artistic License. (See language.perl.com/misc/Artistic.html)
$Id: wordnet.rb,v 1.4 2003/09/03 06:27:51 deveiant Exp $
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