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WordNet: A Lexical Taxonomy of English Words

What is WordNet and why is it useful?

Lowri Williams
Towards Data Science
6 min readJan 26, 2021

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INTRODUCTION

When it comes to Natural Language Processing (NLP), automatically understanding and analysing the meaning of words, as well as pre-processing textual data, can be a challenging task. To support this, we often use lexicons. A lexicon, word-hoard, wordbook, or word-stock is the…

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