wordnet.rb
Path: lib/wordnet.rb
Modified: Wed Sep 03 06:27:51 GMT 2003

WordNet - A Ruby interface to the WordNet lexical database

Synopsis

  require "WordNet"

  # Create a new lexicon object
  lex = WordNet::Lexicon::new
  # Look up the synsets for "language" and "computer program"
  languageSynset = lex.lookupSynsets( "language", WordNet::Noun, 3 )
  programSynset = lex.lookupSynsets( "program", WordNet::Noun, 3 )

  # Create a new synset for programming languages, set its gloss, link it to its
  # hypernym and holonym, and save everything to the database.
  progLangSynset = lex.createSynset( "programming language", WordNet::Noun )
  progLangSynset.gloss = "a system of human-readable symbols and words " #               "for encoding instructions for a computer"
  progLangSynset.hypernyms += languageSynset
  languageSynset.hyponyms += progLangSynset
  progLangSynset.holonyms += programSynset
      programSynset.stuffMeronyms += progLangSynset
  [ progLangSynset, programSynset, languageSynset ].each do |synset|
        synset.store
  end
  # Create a new synset for Ruby, link it, and save it
  rubySynset = lex.createSynset( "Ruby", Wordnet::Noun )
  rubySynset.gloss = "an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming"
  rubySynset.hypernyms += languageSyn ; languageSynset.hyponyms += rubySyn
  rubySynset.write ; languageSynset.write

Description

This is a Ruby interface to the WordNet lexical database. It’s mostly a port of Dan Brian’s Lingua::Wordnet Perl module, modified a bit to be more Ruby-ish.

Author

The Lingua::Wordnet module by Dan Brian, on which this code is based, falls under the following license:

  Copyright 1999,2000,2001 by Dan Brian.

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Written by Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>

Copyright © 2002,2003 The FaerieMUD Consortium. All rights reserved.

This module is free software. You may use, modify, and/or redistribute this software under the terms of the Perl Artistic License. (See language.perl.com/misc/Artistic.html)

Version

 $Id: wordnet.rb,v 1.4 2003/09/03 06:27:51 deveiant Exp $
Required files
crosscase    wordnet/constants    wordnet/lexicon    wordnet/synset   
Classes and Modules
Module WordNet
  ::Module WordNet::Constants
  ::Class WordNet::Lexicon
  ::Class WordNet::LexiconError
  ::Class WordNet::LookupError
  ::Class WordNet::Synset
  ::  ::Class WordNet::Synset::Pointer
  ::Class WordNet::SynsetError
  ::Class WordNet::TestCase