Introducing Swahili Wordnet, a lexicon database of Swahili language which is inspired by the need of Swahili lexicon tools that can aid in text analyisis and research purposes. Words are linked through semantic relationships such as synonyms and hypernyms. The purpose is to lay ground for further development of Swahili language and other local African languages.
Machine Translation
Word sense disambiguation
Name entity recognition
Baseline to local languages
Machine Translation
Word sense disambiguation
Name entity recognition
Baseline to local languages
Have an ease while building your NLP models, be it for research purpose or experimental or just playing around and learning more about Swahili Language We've got you covered. We've embedded Swahili Stopwords and slang terms in the package and also included the slang terms in the swahili wordnet.
"""
* Swahili wordnet
* @author Omondi Vincent
* @version 0.1.0 beta 1
* @Aitess
"""
import wordnet
wn = wordnet.load()
PoS #synsets #word senses #words
Nouns 354 500 415
Verbs 272 373 334
Adjectives 5 2 2
Adverbs 0 0 0
synset = wn.synset('ughushi')
#print the return synsets
print(synset)
[Synset(ughushi.n.1)]
#get definition
print(synset[0].definition)
'kitu kilichobuniwa au utengenezaje wa vitu visivyo vya asili'
