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Name

wnpkgs - description of various WordNet system packages

Description

WordNet 1.6 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 World Wide Web site at http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/. A CD-ROM containing the PC and Macintosh packages will be available from MIT Press in Spring of 1998. Search their web site at http://mitpress.mit.edu for information on purchasing the CD-ROM.

Packages Available Via FTP or WWW
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.

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Package
Filename Platform Size* Description ___________________________________________________________________________________ WordNet 1.6 wn16.unix.tar.gz Unix 37MB WordNet 1.6 Database wn16pc.zip PC database, wn16mac.sit.bin Macintosh interfaces, sense index, gloss index, interface and library source code,documentation. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Semantic semcor16.unix.tar.gz Unix 43MB Semantic Concordance semcor16.zip PC concordance semcor16.sit.bin Macintosh files tagged to WordNet 1.6 database, escort(1WN) interface, documentation. ___________________________________________________________________________________

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Prolog Database prolog16.tar.gz All 18.6MB WordNet 1.6 database

files
in Prologreadable format, documentation. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Sense Map snsmap16.tar.gz All 6.7MB Mapping of
1.5
noun senses to 1.6 senses, documentation. ___________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | * Size refe|rs to size of installed|package. T|he size o|f the | installed |database package diff|ers by comp|uter plat|form. | Ths size li|sted is for the largest|installatio|n. | | | | | | 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.

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Listed in the table below are the sizes of required and optional files.

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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 |__________________________|_______|__________

CD-ROM
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.

Database Package
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.

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| 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 |____________|_______________________

Semantic Concordance Package
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

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on using escort(1WN) is included. The WordNet 1.6 database is not included in this package and must be downloaded separately.

Prolog Database Package
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.

Sense Map Package
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.

Notes

The lexicographer files and grind(1WN) program are not distributed.

The tools and programs used to create the semantic concordances are not distributed.

See Also

wnintro(1WN) , wnintro(3WN) , wnintro(5WN) , wnintro(7WN) .

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