WordNet::QueryData provides a direct interface to the WordNet database files. It requires the WordNet package (http://wordnet.princeton.edu/). It allows the user direct access to the full WordNet semantic lexicon. All parts of speech are supported and access is generally very efficient because the index and morphical exclusion tables are loaded at initialization. This initialization step is slow (appx. 10-15 seconds), but queries are very fast thereafter---thousands of queries can be completed every second.
Make sure to read the included man page ("perldoc QueryData.pm" or "perldoc WordNet::QueryData" to extract).
The ChangeLog file lists a summary of changes to the code.
See http://groups.google.com/group/wn-perl for information on the mailing list.
This assumes that perl was installed to the default location (C:\perl).
0) Make sure that you have installed WordNet to C:\Program Files\WordNet\3.0
Alternatively, you can install NMake and use the Make installation steps. See http://johnbokma.com/perl/make-for-windows.html for info on NMake.
Installation uses the perl MakeMaker utility ('perldoc ExtUtils::MakeMaker'). To build and test the distribution do:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
If "perl Makefile.PL" breaks or "make test" doesn't work at all ("not ok 1"), you may not have the WNHOME or WNSEARCHDIR environment variables defined correctly. Read the QueryData manual page ("perldoc QueryData.pm") to find out how to tell it where your WordNet database is located (you'll need to edit test.pl). Note that if you are are using Debian/Ubuntu and have the standard wordnet package installed , you should set WNSEARCHDIR to /usr/share/wordnet.
If any of the tests fail, send e-mail to the wn-perl mailing list (see DOCUMENTATION).
If the tests run okay, install with (this may need to be run as root):
make install
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)
Copyright (C) 1999-2006 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.
If you use this software as a contribution to a published work, please cite it like this:
@misc{Rennie00
,author = "Jason Rennie"
,title = "WordNet::QueryData: a {P}erl module for accessing the {W}ord{N}et
database"
,howpublished = "http://people.csail.mit.edu/~jrennie/WordNet"
,year = 2000
}
validForms does not implement WordNet's morphological processing correctly. Only the first element of the list returned by validForms is guaranteed to be valid. Later elements may not be valid.