[Corpora-List] Word forms in Wordnet

kiran kiran.sarvabhotla at gmail.com
Wed Nov 20 15:50:23 UTC 2013


Thanks a lot... got it...

On Wednesday, 20 November 2013, Tristan Miller wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> On 20/11/13 05:32 AM, kiran wrote:
> > I am using RiTa Wordnet library for obtaining information from wordnet.
> > The library gives me POS information for a word, best POS information,
> > examples, synsets etc...
> >
> > Does it have a provide word forms of a word ?? Has anyone got that using
> > the RiTa library. I also don't mind changing the library if the
> > information can be obtained from other librar.
> >
> > For example,
> > I need to get all the word forms for a word "talk". Sample output would
> > be talks, talked...
>
> WordNet maintains a list of irregular word forms in the noun.exc,
> verb.exc, adj.exc, and adv.exc files.  The library you're using may or
> may not provide access to these.  But note that the exc files themselves
> are just simple text files which pair a base and irregularly inflected
> form; they don't provide any information on what the irregular forms are
> for (e.g., plural, past participle, etc.).  And AFAIK WordNet itself
> doesn't provide regular inflections (which you can generate with a
> rule-based system).
>
> Regards,
> Tristan
>
> --
> Tristan Miller, Research Scientist
> Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP-TUDA)
> Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt
> Tel: +49 6151 16 6166 | Web: http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/
>
>

-- 
Thank you
Kiran Sarvabhotla

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