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Can you recommend a good Python library to get thesaurus and taxonomy of a given word?

Synonym:

>>> print get_synonym( image )
[ picture ,  photo ]

Taxonomy:

>>> print get_taxonomy( baseball )
[ sports ]

Answer 1

pywordnet, now part of NLTK

Answer 2

NLTK

Installation

You might need superuser rights for that:

$ pip install nltk

Usage

>>> import nltk
>>> from nltk.corpus import wordnet as wn

>>> wn.synsets( dog )
[Synset( dog.n.01 ), Synset( frump.n.01 ), Synset( dog.n.03 ), Synset( cad.n.01 ), Synset( frank.n.02 ), Synset( pawl.n.01 ), Synset( andiron.n.01 ), Synset( chase.v.01 )]

>>> wn.synset( dog.n.01 ).definition()
u a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds 

>>> wn.synset( dog.n.03 ).definition()
u informal term for a man 

>>> baseball = wn.synset( baseball.n.01 )
>>> sport = wn.synset( sport.n.01 )
>>> picture = wn.synset( picture.n.01 )

>>> sport.path_similarity(baseball)
0.16666666666666666

>>> sport.path_similarity(picture)
0.06666666666666667

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