Offline database of synonyms/thesaurus
It follows jsonl format - meaning, that each line is a separate json document.
It contains:
word: (String) Actual word
wordnet_id: (String) internal wordnet reference
key: (String) Some words can have multiple meanings. Each meaning will have same word, but different key.
pos: (String) part of speech tag, eg. `noun`, `verb`
synonyms: (Array of String) synonyms related to this key
desc: (Array of String) description of word
File: en_thesaurus.jsonl
It's an extration out of WordNet. Refer to WordNet License for usage. As of today:
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wordnet_extract.py can be run without any additional dependencies, Python3.6+ is required to be able to execute it
It parses WordNet database and creates .jsonl file.
English database can be found: WordNet
If any other language strictly follows same format, it should work as well.
Usage:
usage: wordnet_extract.py [-h] [--db_path DB_PATH] output
positional arguments:
output Output file, jsonl extension
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--db_path DB_PATH Directory where wordnet data files are located