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wnpkgs - description of various WordNet system packages
WordNet 1.7 is distributed in several formats and in various packages. All
of the packages are available via anonymous FTP from ftp.cogsci.princeton.edu
and from the WordNet Web site at http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
.
The following WordNet packages can be
downloaded using a web browser such as Netscape from ftp://ftp.cogsci.princeton.edu/wordnet/
, or from the Web site noted above. Users can also FTP directly from ftp.cogsci.princeton.edu
, directory wordnet .
Package | Filename | Platform | Size* | Description
|
WordNet 1.6 | wn16.unix.tar.gz | Unix | 37MB | WordNet 1.6 database, interfaces,
sense index, gloss index, interface and library source code,documentation.
|
Database | wn16pc.exe | PC | | |
| wn16mac.sea | Macintosh | | |
Semantic | semcor16.unix.tar.gz | Unix | 43MB | Semantic concordance files tagged
to WordNet 1.6 database, escort (1WN) interface, documentation. |
Concordance
| semcor16.exe | PC | | |
| semcor16.mac.sea | Macintosh | | |
Prolog
Database | prolog16.tar.gz | All | 18.6MB | WordNet 1.6 database files in Prolog-readable
format, documentation. |
Sense Map | snsmap16.tar.gz | All | 6.7MB | Mapping
of 1.5 noun senses to 1.6 senses, documentation. |
* Size refers to size
of installed package. The size of the installed database package differs
by computer platform. Ths size listed is for the largest installation.
The WordNet database and accompanying packages require a large amount
of disk space as noted in the table above. The database package contains
necessary files and some auxiliary files which may be deleted to save
space. Listed in the table below are the sizes of required and optional
files.
File | Size | Required |
Required database files | 22MB | Yes
|
cntlist | .9MB | No |
Gloss Index (index.gloss) | 5.7MB | No |
Sense Index
(index.sense) | 6.1MB | No |
The WordNet 1.6 CD-ROM contains the WordNet
database package for the PC and Macintosh systems. The user can choose
to install the entire package, including all the database files, on their
system, or to run WordNet from the CD-ROM. The other WordNet packages are
also included on the CD-ROM.
The database package is a
complete installation for WordNet 1.6 users. It includes the 1.6 database
files, precompiled binaries for the platforms specified below, source
code for the WordNet browsers and library, and documentation. The other
packages are not included - they must be downloaded and installed separately.
Note that these are the platforms that the binaries were compiled on.
Most should work on newer versions of the operating system.
Hardware
| Operating System |
Sun SPARC | SunOS 4.1.3 |
Sun SPARC | Solaris 2.5.2
|
SGI | IRIX 5.3 |
PC(486) | Linux (kernel 2.0.27) |
PC(Pentium) | Windows/95
|
PC(386) | Windows 3.1 |
PC(386) | DOS |
PowerMac | MacOS 7.5.1 |
The semantic concordance package contains three sets
of semantically tagged Brown Corpus files, statistical information, and
the escort(1WN)
interface precompiled for the Unix and Windows-based PC
platforms listed above. Documentation describing the format of the semantic
concordance files and on using escort(1WN)
is included. The WordNet 1.6
database is not included in this package and must be downloaded separately.
The WordNet 1.6 database files are available in
this package in a Prolog-readable format. Documentation describing the
file format is included. This package is only downloadable in compressed
tar file format, although once unpackaged it can be used from PC and Macintosh
systems since the files are in ASCII.
To help users
automatically convert 1.5 noun senses to their corresponding 1.6 senses,
we provide noun sense mapping information in this package. This package
contains files to map polysemous and monosemous nouns, and documentation
that describes the format of these files. As with the Prolog database,
this package is only downloadable in compressed tar format, but the files
are also in ASCII.
The lexicographer files and grind(1WN)
program
are not distributed.
The tools and programs used to create the semantic
concordances are not distributed.
wnintro(1WN)
, wnintro(3WN)
,
wnintro(5WN)
, wnintro(7WN)
.
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