Separate word lists for nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc

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polygenelubricants picture polygenelubricants · Feb 18, 2010 · Viewed 31.8k times · Source

Usually word lists are 1 file that contains everything, but are there separately downloadable noun list, verb list, adjective list, etc?

I need them for English specifically.

Answer

Chilly picture Chilly · Dec 11, 2014

If you download just the database files from wordnet.princeton.edu/download/current-version you can extract the words by running these commands:

egrep -o "^[0-9]{8}\s[0-9]{2}\s[a-z]\s[0-9]{2}\s[a-zA-Z_]*\s" data.adj | cut -d ' ' -f 5 > conv.data.adj
egrep -o "^[0-9]{8}\s[0-9]{2}\s[a-z]\s[0-9]{2}\s[a-zA-Z_]*\s" data.adv | cut -d ' ' -f 5 > conv.data.adv
egrep -o "^[0-9]{8}\s[0-9]{2}\s[a-z]\s[0-9]{2}\s[a-zA-Z_]*\s" data.noun | cut -d ' ' -f 5 > conv.data.noun
egrep -o "^[0-9]{8}\s[0-9]{2}\s[a-z]\s[0-9]{2}\s[a-zA-Z_]*\s" data.verb | cut -d ' ' -f 5 > conv.data.verb

Or if you only want single words (no underscores)

egrep -o "^[0-9]{8}\s[0-9]{2}\s[a-z]\s[0-9]{2}\s[a-zA-Z]*\s" data.adj | cut -d ' ' -f 5 > conv.data.adj
egrep -o "^[0-9]{8}\s[0-9]{2}\s[a-z]\s[0-9]{2}\s[a-zA-Z]*\s" data.adv | cut -d ' ' -f 5 > conv.data.adv
egrep -o "^[0-9]{8}\s[0-9]{2}\s[a-z]\s[0-9]{2}\s[a-zA-Z]*\s" data.noun | cut -d ' ' -f 5 > conv.data.noun
egrep -o "^[0-9]{8}\s[0-9]{2}\s[a-z]\s[0-9]{2}\s[a-zA-Z]*\s" data.verb | cut -d ' ' -f 5 > conv.data.verb

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