Xiaorong I haven't used the two WordNet Perl modules very much, but I do know that both require a bit of work to install. The following are some of my notes from last year when I installed the modules (Some things may have changed since then. WordNet 2.1 is out now for Windows, but not yet for Linux/Unix. My notes pertain to a Linux install):
You need to install the Wordnet 2.0 program first (which is written in C, I believe, before installing either of the Perl modules. It's available from http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/) Be sure to read the INSTALL file, which asks you to edit the Makefile program as follows: Choose Linux as the op system, and tell the installer to put the program in /usr/local/WordNet-2.0 Then you simply type: make BinWorld To do the complete install. When installing Lingua::Wordnet, be *sure* to read the README -- it's vital! Among other things, you have to run a program called convertdb.pl to convert all your Wordnet-2.0 databases so Lingua::Wordnet can work with them (It creates a lot of Perl hashes). You also have to change part of Wordnet.PM so it can find your newly created Perl databases. I changed line 17 to say: $DICTDIR = '/usr/lib/Lingua-Wordnet0.73/lingua-wordnet/'; so that the program could find the Perl databases. Then I was able to run the test file tree.pl in the scripts subdirectory of Lingua-Wordnet0.73. When running this test file, note that you have to enter a word ("car") and then a part of speech. This has to be of the form "n", not "noun", e.g. There's a nice article in the Perl Journal about WordNet at http://www.brians.org/Projects/Technology/Papers/Wordnet/ Other papers on Wordnet are at: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/papers.shtml -- Chris Morgan -----Original Message----- From: xiaorong xiang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 2:49 PM To: perl4lib@perl.org Subject: WordNet perl modules Hi! This is Xiaorong working in the University of Notre Dame Library. There are two perl modules for WordNet: 1. WordNet-QueryData-1.37 written by Dan Brian 2. Lingua-Wordnet written byJason Rennie Does any one have any experimence on these two modules? Which one do you think is better? Thanks for your advices. Xiaorong _________________________________________________________________ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ -----Original Message----- From: xiaorong xiang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 2:49 PM To: perl4lib@perl.org Subject: WordNet perl modules Hi! This is Xiaorong working in the University of Notre Dame Library. There are two perl modules for WordNet: 1. WordNet-QueryData-1.37 written by Dan Brian 2. Lingua-Wordnet written byJason Rennie Does any one have any experimence on these two modules? Which one do you think is better? Thanks for your advices. Xiaorong _________________________________________________________________ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ -----Original Message----- From: xiaorong xiang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 2:49 PM To: perl4lib@perl.org Subject: WordNet perl modules Hi! This is Xiaorong working in the University of Notre Dame Library. There are two perl modules for WordNet: 1. WordNet-QueryData-1.37 written by Dan Brian 2. Lingua-Wordnet written byJason Rennie Does any one have any experimence on these two modules? Which one do you think is better? Thanks for your advices. Xiaorong _________________________________________________________________ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ -----Original Message----- From: xiaorong xiang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 2:49 PM To: perl4lib@perl.org Subject: WordNet perl modules Hi! This is Xiaorong working in the University of Notre Dame Library. There are two perl modules for WordNet: 1. WordNet-QueryData-1.37 written by Dan Brian 2. Lingua-Wordnet written byJason Rennie Does any one have any experimence on these two modules? Which one do you think is better? Thanks for your advices. Xiaorong _________________________________________________________________ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/
