Oliver Steele

After a spate of requests and a contribution from Wei-Hao Lin, I’ve finally gotten around to releasing an update of PyWordNet that works with the WordNet 2.0 database files. (WordNet 2.0 adds lexical links for derivational morphology and topical classification. This broke the PyWordNet 1.4 dictionary file parser.)

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This release also adds a module, contributed by Des Berry, for reading the concordance data; and an implementation of Lexname by Klaus Reis. I don’t know how these work, so ask for help on the PyWordNet discussion group, or from the authors.

Now that product ingredient lists have become marketing bullets, here are two terms that I’ve found useful for thinking about them:

Ingrediant (with an ‘a’)

An item added to an ingredient list purely for its marketing effect, as opposed to any material qualities that it adds to the product. For example, the vitamins that are added to shampoos. (By analogy with surfactant, flavorant, colorant.)

Isochem

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