In weRbelgium/wordnet.dutch: Open Dutch WordNet

library(knitr)
opts_chunk$set(fig.align="center", fig.width=10, fig.height=10, out.width="100%", out.height="100%", comment=NA)

Introduction

Open Dutch WordNet is a Dutch lexical semantic database. The database provides cognitive synonyms and lexical entries for the Dutch language.

The wordnet.dutch package provides the Open Dutch Wordnet database in R format and provides R functions to easily work with the dataset.

library(wordnet.dutch)

Synthetic sets

Dutch synthetic sets are available in the dutch_synset dataset.

data(dutch_synset)
str(dutch_synset)

There are 117914 synthetic sets available in the Open Dutch Wordnet. Each can have several relations to other synthetis sets and each can have several definitions.

nrow(dutch_synset$ids)
nrow(dutch_synset$relations)
nrow(dutch_synset$definitions)

sort(table(dutch_synset$relations$relType), decreasing = TRUE)
table(dutch_synset$definitions$provenance, dutch_synset$definitions$language)