## org.apache.lucene.wordnet
Class Syns2Index

    java.lang.Object
      org.apache.lucene.wordnet.Syns2Index

    public class Syns2Index

extends Object

Convert the prolog file wn_s.pl from the WordNet prolog download into a Lucene index suitable for looking up synonyms and performing query expansion (`SynExpand.expand(...)`). This has been tested with WordNet 2.0. The index has fields named "word" (`F_WORD`) and "syn" (`F_SYN`).

The source word (such as 'big') can be looked up in the "word" field, and if present there will be fields named "syn" for every synonym. What's tricky here is that there could be multiple fields with the same name, in the general case for words that have multiple synonyms. That's not a problem with Lucene, you just use `Document.getValues(java.lang.String)`

While the WordNet file distinguishes groups of synonyms with related meanings we don't do that here.

This can take 4 minutes to execute and build an index on a "fast" system and the index takes up almost 3 MB.

Author:
  Dave Spencer, dave@searchmorph.com
See Also:
  WordNet home page, prologdb man page, sample site that uses it

Field Summary
`static String` `F_SYN`
`static String` `F_WORD`

Constructor Summary
`Syns2Index()`

Method Summary
`static void` `main(String[] args)` Takes arg of prolog file name and index directory.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Field Detail

### F_SYN

    public static final String F_SYN

See Also:
  Constant Field Values

### F_WORD

    public static final String F_WORD

See Also:
  Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

### Syns2Index

    public Syns2Index()

Method Detail

### main

    public static void main(String[] args)
                     throws Throwable

  Takes arg of prolog file name and index directory.

  Throws:
    `Throwable`

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