How to get synonyms from nltk WordNet Python
WordNet is great, but I'm having a hard time getting synonyms in nltk. If you search similar to for the word 'small' like here, it shows all of the synonyms.
Basically I just need to know the following:
wn.synsets('word')[i].option() Where option can be hypernyms and antonyms, but what is the option for getting synonyms?
Answer
If you want the synonyms in the synset (aka the lemmas that make up the set), you can get them with lemma_names():
>>> for ss in wn.synsets('small'):
>>> print(ss.name(), ss.lemma_names())
small.n.01 ['small']
small.n.02 ['small']
small.a.01 ['small', 'little']
minor.s.10 ['minor', 'modest', 'small', 'small-scale', 'pocket-size', 'pocket-sized']
little.s.03 ['little', 'small']
small.s.04 ['small']
humble.s.01 ['humble', 'low', 'lowly', 'modest', 'small']
...