wordnet ☆
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Description:
Lexical database for the English language
Type: Formula  |  Latest Version: 3.1@2  |  Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025
Links: Homepage  |  formulae.brew.sh
Category: Ai ml
Tags: nlp linguistics database semantic ai text-processing
Install: brew install wordnet
About:
WordNet is a large lexical database of English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. It groups words into sets of cognitive synonyms called synsets, each expressing a distinct concept, and provides short definitions and usage examples. It also records semantic relationships between these synsets, including hypernymy, hyponymy, and meronymy.
Key Features:
  • Extensive lexical database with over 150,000 words
  • Semantic network of synsets and conceptual relationships
  • Command-line interface for querying the database
  • APIs for integration with other applications
Use Cases:
  • Natural language processing and computational linguistics research
  • Semantic search and query expansion
  • AI and machine learning training data
  • Lexical analysis and text understanding tools
Alternatives:
  • ConceptNet – Open-source semantic network with multilingual support and crowdsourced knowledge
  • FrameNet – Focuses on semantic frames and predicate relationships rather than word senses
Version History
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Sep 11, 2025 9:24pm 3.1 2 VERSION_BUMP 6b454e22
Nov 10, 2024 1:46pm 3.1 2 VERSION_BUMP 80aa1634
Sep 19, 2023 2:21am 3.1 1 VERSION_BUMP 7868e7b4
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