How to get all the hyponyms of a word/synset in python nltk and wordnet?
Solution 1:
from nltk.corpus import wordnet as wn
vehicle = wn.synset('vehicle.n.01')
typesOfVehicles = list(set([w for s in vehicle.closure(lambda s:s.hyponyms()) for w in s.lemma_names()]))
This will give you all the unique words from every synset that is a hyponym of the noun "vehicle" (1st sense).
Solution 2:
def get_hyponyms(synset):
hyponyms = set()
for hyponym in synset.hyponyms():
hyponyms |= set(get_hyponyms(hyponym))
return hyponyms | set(synset.hyponyms())