WDD - NLP Practical

WordNet Dictionary Lookup CLI

// package.json

{
  "name": "dictionary",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "preferGlobal": true,
  "bin": "./index.js",
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "chalk": "^2.3.2",
    "commander": "^2.15.0",
    "natural": "^0.5.6",
    "wordnet-db": "^3.1.6"
  }
}


// index.js

#!/usr/bin/env node
const program = require('commander');
const natural = require('natural');
const wordNet = new natural.WordNet()

let wordNetLookUp = ( val ) => {
    wordNet.lookup( val, ( results ) => {
        results.forEach( ( result ) => {
            console.info('------------------------------------');
            console.info(result.synsetOffset);
            console.info(result.pos);
            console.info(result.lemma);
            console.info(result.synonyms);
            console.info(result.pos);
            console.info(result.gloss);
        } );
    })
}

program
    .version('1.0.0')
    .description('Lookup words using the WordNet Database');

program
    .command('lookup <word>')
    .alias(' l ')
    .description('Search for a word in the dictionary')
    .action( ( word ) => {
        wordNetLookUp( word );
    } );


program.parse(process.argv);