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Graphing how the 10k* most common English words define each other

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105 points·by wyattsell·4 mesi fa·24 comments

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wyattsell
·25 giorni fa·discuss
This is really cool!
wyattsell
·4 mesi fa·discuss
fixed, thanks for pointing that out.
wyattsell
·4 mesi fa·discuss
The reason for this (I should have probably added a note to the site in hindsight), is that WordNet doesn't include definitions for these words in its corpus. This is why the count is less than 10,000: anything that WordNet doesn't have a definition for isn't included. I left a nod to this in the asterisk, but I realise now I didn't explain it anywhere.

From the old Princeton WordNet FAQ page (https://wordnet.princeton.edu/frequently-asked-questions):

> WordNet only contains "open-class words": nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Thus, excluded words include determiners, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, and particles.

I suppose I could have included them as source nodes (only outgoing), but I think they would have ended up connecting to a whole bunch of definitions, while not providing much in the way of interest.
wyattsell
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Glad you like it. NetworkX for creating the graph and the layout; then SigmaJS for displaying it.