Wordnet Find Synonyms

Question

I am searching for a way to find all the synonyms of a particular word using wordnet. I am using JAWS.

For example:

love(v):

Answer 1

How about using RitaWN instead of JAWS? I see it is listed as one of the available API in http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/related-projects/#Java I also see it has getAllSynonyms() method, they provide an example and it works.

Check this out:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Arrays;

import rita.*;

public class Synonyms {

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

    // Would pass in a PApplet normally, but we don't need to here
    RiWordNet wordnet = new RiWordNet("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\WordNet\\2.1");

    // Get a random noun
    String word = "love";//wordnet.getRandomWord("n");
    // Get max 15 synonyms
    String[] synonyms = wordnet.getAllSynonyms(word, "v");

    System.out.println("Random noun: " + word);
    if (synonyms != null) {
        // Sort alphabetically
        Arrays.sort(synonyms);
        for (int i = 0; i < synonyms.length; i++) {
            System.out.println("Synonym " + i + ": " + synonyms[i]);
        }
    } else {
        System.out.println("No synyonyms!");
    }
}

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