English WordNet is a representation of the English language a lexical network. It groups words into synsets and links them according to semantic relationships such as hypernymy, antonymy and meronymy. You can actually browse through its content from the English Wordnet website. Wordnet is often used in natural language processing (NLP) applications (but also many others) and provides deep lexical information about the English language as a graph. As a graph… that sounds interesting, definitely worth a QuickGraph.

Because this is a particularly rich case I’ll break it down in at least two instalments. In the first one I’ll explain the construction of the graph in Neo4j and in the second one I’ll show some interesting ways of using it. I hope you’ll enjoy it.