Attribute error in similarity method
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Description
The following code give me a {AttributeError}'NoneType' object has no attribute 'ic':
wordnet.synsets("next", "JJ")[0].similarity(wordnet.synsets("following", "JJ")[0])
This is because the ancestor method can return a None value.
What's the fix? Should the similarity between 2 synsets without common ancestor be 0.0?
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Reproduce the expression using wordnet.synsets(...)[0].similarity(...) and inspect the ancestor and similarity methods that produce the AttributeError. Determine the expected behavior when two synsets have no common ancestor, then add regression coverage for that case and verify the existing similarity behavior remains unchanged.
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- python
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- machine-learning
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- Bug
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