WordNet::QueryData perl module ------------------------------ Provides an object-oriented perl interface to the full WordNet system. This is my second attempt at a perl interface to WN. This draft includes full support for all parts of WordNet (nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs) and is very efficient after the initialization step (where index and morph. exc. files are loaded). This initialization step will prove to be annoying if you simply want to 'play' with WordNet. On my PIII/500, it takes about 12 seconds and 16 megs of memory to initialize. After that, however, things should be blazingly fast and efficient. All file access is done with fseek calls and takes full advantage of the static nature of the WordNet data.* files. See the man page ('perldoc WordNet::QueryData' after having run 'make') for information on all that is possible. PREREQUISITES ------------- Perl5 WordNet 1.6 (http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/obtain/) Strictly speaking, only the WN 1.6 data files are required (everything in the 'dict' directory), but you might as well install all of WN 1.6 while you're at it. BUILD & INSTALL --------------- To put WordNet::QueryData in the standard place do: perl Makefile.PL make make test Before running 'make test', you will need to modify test.pl to indicate the correct location of the WordNet 'dict' directory. The default location is /usr/local/dict. To install do: make install NOTE: The above has been tested with RedHat Linux and is likely to work under most unices. See below for notes on a Windows install. CUSTOM DIRECTORY ---------------- To install WordNet::QueryData in /foo/bar/baz do: mkdir /foo/bar/baz/WordNet cp QueryData.pm /foo/bar/baz/WordNet Make sure to add /foo/bar/baz to perl's @INC variable (e.g. -I/foo/bar/baz) WINDOWS ------- Here's the install proceedure suggested by Luigi Bianchi for Win95. Let me know if this doesn't work for other Windows variants. 1) Unpack your distribution anywhere. I did in /djgpp/lib/perl5/site. 2) Create the dir WordNet off the distribution, i.e. /djgpp/lib/perl5/site/WordNet-QueryData-1.10/WordNet and copy QueryData.pm in it. 3) In the wordNet distribution directory ( /wn16/dict ) rename (or copy, if other packages depend on the distribution filenames) all the *.idx files index.* and all the *.dat files data.* 4) Follow your instructions as per your README, i.e. replace "/usr/local/dict" with "/wn16/dict" in test.pl 5) Start bash etc. I noticed that, despite the final success, perl complains that it can't find perl5 (though in fact it does--just a question of how the version is reported); that MANIFEST and README are missing (though they are there with test.pl), and that blib already exists (it does). DOCUMENTATION ------------- The included man page (do 'perldoc WordNet::QueryData' to extract) should give you a good idea of how to use this module and what it is good for. If you are upgrading from an older version, check the ChangeLog file for information about changes to the code. WordNet perl modules can be found at http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/WordNet/ There is a mailing list, wn-perl@egroups.com, for the discussion of WordNet::QueryData. Visit http://www.egroups.com/group/wn-perl/info.html to see past messages and for information on how to subscribe. COPYRIGHT --------- Copyright (C) 2000,2001 Jason Rennie All rights reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.