wnpkgs - description of various WordNet system packages
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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Prolog Database prolog16.tar.gz All 18.6MB WordNet 1.6 database
Listed in the table below are the sizes of required and optional files.
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.
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
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.
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) .