Provide an API

[LifeIsStrange]

Either a native API or an NLTK integration.
https://www.nltk.org/howto/wordnet.html
The NLTK API make it clear and easy on how to use wordnet.
The wordnet english readme isn't clear, you show how to build an XML file containing the whole wordnet but not how to programmatically query it.

This would help making english-wordnet much more used/popular.
@jmccrae friendly ping

Note: I consider this higher priority than support for Babelnet

[jmccrae]

Hi, thanks for you interest in the project. We would not really provide an API as there is not really resources to maintain this. However, NLTK integration is in progress (see #771 for discussion). There is also a fairly simple Python script for working with these files provided under the scripts/ folder.

[LifeIsStrange]

@jmccrae
Yes I am now aware of NLTK and WN support
https://github.com/goodmami/wn
That is great, however wordnet English has a major issue to solve for those libraries:

See the last comment in
nltk/nltk#2885

Those are the respective wordnet English issues
#773
#774
Especially the sense ordering issues are worrying from an external user point of view.