This is the README file for WordNet 1.7.1 1. About WordNet WordNet was developed at Princeton University's Cognitive Science Laboratory under the direction of George Miller, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Emeritus. Over the years many linguists, lexicographers, students, and software engineers have contributed to the project. WordNet is an online lexical reference system. Word forms in WordNet are represented in their familiar orthography; word meanings are represented by synonym sets (synsets) - lists of synonymous word forms that are interchangeable in some context. Two kinds of relations are recognized: lexical and semantic. Lexical relations hold between word forms; semantic relations hold between word meanings. To learn more about WordNet, read "Five Papers on WordNet," available via anonymous FTP from our web site and in printed form. A book, "WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database," containing an updated version of "Five Papers on WordNet" and additional papers by WordNet users, is available from MIT Press: http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=026206197X Information about WordNet, access to our online interface, and the various WordNet packages that you can download are available from our web site. All of the software documentation is available online, as well as a FAQ. On this site we also have information about other applications that use WordNet. http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ 2. Contacting Us Ongoing deveopment work and WordNet related projects are done by a small group of researchers, lexicographers, and systems programmers. Since our resources are VERY limited, we request that you please confine correspondence to WordNet topics only. Please check the documentation, FAQ, and other resources for the answer to your question or problem before contacting us. When reporting a problem, please be as specific as possible, stating the computer platform you are using, which interface you are using, and the exact error. The more details you can provide, the more likely it is that you will get an answer. Please address all e-mail concerning WordNet to 'wordnet@princeton.edu'. We maintain a database of "registered" WordNet users. We use this database to send mail to users when necessary (such as announcing a new release), and also to help keep track of the number of users we have, which in turn helps us with important items such as funding. If you download WordNet, you are encouraged to send e-mail to the address above, stating which platform you're using and which package(s) you've downloaded. In addition to the user database, there is a WordNet user discussion group mailing list. Information on joining the user mailing list is in the file README.list. 3. The WordNet Web Site We maintain a Web site at http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ From this site users can download WordNet, run a web interface to WordNet, and download "Five Papers on WordNet." We also maintain links to other related projects and online interfaces to WordNet, and an extensive (but by no means complete) bibliography. If you have an application or paper that you would like included, please send e-mail to the above address. If you have trouble installing or downloading WordNet, have a bug to report, or any other problem, please refer to the online FAQ file first. If you can heal thyself, please do so. The FAQ will be updated over time. And if you do find a previously unreported problem, please report it to 'wordnet@princeton.edu'. 4. Current Release WordNet Version 1.7.1 is the only version available for download at this time. See the file CHANGES for information about changes from version 1.6. Precompiled binaries for the WordNet browsers and library are included in the database package for the following platforms. (Note that these are the platforms that the binaries were compiled on. Most should work on newer versions of the operating system.) Sun SPARC Solaris 7 Red Hat Linux 7.1 Windows 2000 Silicon Graphics Irix 6.5.8 5. WordNet Packages WordNet packages can either be downloaded from our web site, or via anonymous FTP. The "Download WordNet" link describes each package. In order to facilitate downloading, some of the packages are available as both a single file or a series of smaller files. If you download a package that has been split into smaller files you must make sure that you download all of the individual files in the package. 5.1 "Five Papers on WordNet" The paper "Five Papers on WordNet" is available in several different formats: 5papers.pdf PDF file 5papers.ps Postscript file 5papers.tar.Z compressed tar file of nroff source 6. Downloading WordNet ***** IF YOU USE FTP, REMEMBER TO FTP IN "binary" MODE!!! ***** **************************************************************************** * IF YOU DONWLOAD WordNet, PLEASE SEND MAIL TO wordnet@princeton.edu SO WE * * CAN UPDATE OUR RECORDS AND KEEP TRACK OF OUR USERS FOR FUTURE MAILINGS * * AND RELEASES. EVEN IF YOU ARE A CURRENT USER WHO IS UPGRADING, IT IS * * USEFUL TO US TO KNOW THAT YOU HAVE UPGRADED TO 1.7.1. * **************************************************************************** 6.1 Princeton FTP Site Host: ftp.cogsci.princeton.edu [128.112.144.11] Login: ftp Password: Your e-mail address Directory: pub/wordnet 6.2 Stuttgart Mirror FTP Site Host: ftp.ims.uni-stuttgart.de [141.58.127.61] Login: ftp Password: Your e-mail address Directory: /pub/WordNet/1.7.1 Note: 'ls' sometimes doesn't work properly, 'dir' shows everything. Due to the size of the WordNet distribution, please restrict downloading to time frames outside office hours (i.e. outside 9am - 6pm EST). All queries regarding the installation of the system, its use and maintenance should be made to wordnet@princeton.edu only. 7. Installing WordNet Packages WordNet packages are generally very easy to install. See the UNBUNDLE file (on the FTP site and on the web site under "Download WordNet") for instructions on unbundling downloaded packages. Once unbundled, each package contains an INSTALL file with package-specific installation and compilation instructions. 8. Bugs Before reporting download or installation problems, or bugs, please check the FAQ and BUGS files on our web site to see if your situation is already addressed there. If not, then report WordNet related problems to 'wordnet@princeton.edu'.