[nltk-dev] Wordnet Domains?

[dar...@ontrenet.com]

Hi,
I was wondering if the wordnet API supports the wordnet domains
hierarchy of grouping words/phrases together? If so, how does one
determine the domain of a given synset?

thanks,
Darren

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[Steven Bethard]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:27 AM, <dar...@ontrenet.com> wrote:
>  I was wondering if the wordnet API supports the wordnet domains
> hierarchy of grouping words/phrases together?

I suspect not. If you know where this information is stored in the
WordNet database, it might be possible to expose it somehow.

Steve
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[Christopher Crowner]

If someone wanted to create an issue for this  I have a patch (just a few lines in corpus/readers/wordnet.py that return topic_domains, region_domains, and usage_domains)

The domains in WordNet are limited. Attached are files that list the topic, usage, and region domains (with some groupings of like domains).

The topic domains have a bit of hierarchy. Members of the domains are spotty, along with other problems.

Chris

[Francis Bond]

G'day,

On 21 April 2010 04:58, Christopher Crowner <ccro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If someone wanted to create an issue for this  I have a patch (just a few
> lines in corpus/readers/wordnet.py that return topic_domains,
> region_domains, and usage_domains)
> The domains in WordNet are limited. Attached are files that list the topic,
> usage, and region domains (with some groupings of like domains).
> The topic domains have a bit of hierarchy. Members of the domains are
> spotty, along with other problems.

I would welcome the ability to query domains, although the coverage is
spotty, they are very useful indicators for WSD when we get a match.

Francis

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