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phrase not found in nltk wordnet but found via the princeton wordnetweb online search

This is probably dumb but I cannot seem to find words like "wheeled vehicle" via wn.synsets('wheeled vehicle') (wn created via from nltk.corpus import wordnet as wn) --- returns empty array, but I could however find it on the princeton wordnetweb online search

Might anyone know what I'm missing? Or recommend better libraries?

Thanks!

Solution

  • For multi word lemmas, use underscore instead of whitespaces.

    >>> from nltk.corpus import wordnet as wn

# Retrieve the synsets that're associated with lemma "wheeled vehicle"
>>> wn.synsets('wheeled_vehicle')
[Synset('wheeled_vehicle.n.01')]

>>> wn.synsets('wheeled_vehicle')[0].definition()
u'a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people'

    To access the synset directly, you need to know the POS and the lemma index of the synset:

    >>> wn.synset('wheeled_vehicle.n.01')
Synset('wheeled_vehicle.n.01')