ovos-skill-wordnet

WordNet skill for OpenVoiceOS. Adds a voice interface on top of ovos-wordnet-plugin, which handles all WordNet lookups, intent detection, and translation.

Supports three answer modes:

• Explicit intent — handles utterances that target WordNet directly (e.g. "ask wordnet about dog"). These always go to this skill. The plugin's built-in intent parser detects the relation type (definition, antonym, hypernym, …) and returns a spoken-language response.
• Common Query — handles dictionary-style questions via the OVOS Common Query pipeline. Competes with other knowledge skills; returns confidence 0.6 for definition matches.
• Fallback — if no other skill answers, the fallback handler intercepts utterances that match WordnetQuery.voc (dictionary/thesaurus keywords) and queries the plugin for an answer before OVOS says "I don't know".

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Installation

pip install ovos-skill-wordnet

No API key required. WordNet data is downloaded automatically on first use (~30–60 MB for English) and cached locally. Non-English definitions are translated via the system translation plugin where no native gloss is available.

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Answer modes

Explicit intent

These always route to this skill because they name WordNet explicitly:

• "Ask wordnet about dog"
• "Search word net for happy"
• "What does wordnet say about bank?"

The plugin detects which relation was asked (definition, antonym, hypernym, hyponym, holonym, lemma) and returns a natural-language response.

Common Query pipeline

When the Common Query pipeline plugin is active, this skill competes against other knowledge skills (e.g. Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia). Any bare definition query can win:

• "What is a dog?"
• "What does melancholy mean?"

Fallback

Registered at priority 90. Only intercepts utterances containing dictionary/thesaurus keywords (definition, antonym, synonym, meaning, opposite, hypernym, hyponym, …). All other utterances pass through immediately so unrelated fallbacks are not affected.

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Supported languages

31 languages are supported. Definitions are native for English (Open English WordNet 2024) and German (ODENet). All other languages use OMW 1.4 lemmas; where native definitions are unavailable the English definition is translated via the configured OVOS translation plugin.

BCP-47	Language
ar	Arabic
bg	Bulgarian
ca	Catalan
cmn	Mandarin Chinese
da	Danish
de	German
el	Greek
en	English
es	Spanish
eu	Basque
fi	Finnish
fr	French
gl	Galician
he	Hebrew
hr	Croatian
id	Indonesian
is	Icelandic
it	Italian
ja	Japanese
lt	Lithuanian
nb	Norwegian Bokmål
nl	Dutch
nn	Norwegian Nynorsk
pl	Polish
pt	Portuguese
ro	Romanian
sk	Slovak
sl	Slovenian
sv	Swedish
th	Thai
zsm	Standard Malay

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License

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE.