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This is the README file for WordNet 3.0
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1. About WordNet
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WordNet was developed at Princeton University's Cognitive Science
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Laboratory under the direction of George Miller, James S. McDonnell
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Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Emeritus. Over the
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years many linguists, lexicographers, students, and software engineers
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have contributed to the project.
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WordNet is an online lexical reference system. Word forms in WordNet
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are represented in their familiar orthography; word meanings are
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represented by synonym sets (synsets) - lists of synonymous word forms
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that are interchangeable in some context. Two kinds of relations are
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recognized: lexical and semantic. Lexical relations hold between word
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forms; semantic relations hold between word meanings.
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To learn more about WordNet, the book "WordNet: An Electronic Lexical
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Database," containing an updated version of "Five Papers on WordNet"
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and additional papers by WordNet users, is available from MIT Press:
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http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=026206197X
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2. The WordNet Web Site
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We maintain a Web site at:
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http://wordnet.princeton.edu
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Information about WordNet, access to our online interface, and the
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various WordNet packages that you can download are available from our
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web site. All of the software documentation is available online, as
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well as a FAQ. On this site we also have information about other
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applications that use WordNet. If you have an application that you
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would like included, please send e-mail to the above address.
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3. Contacting Us
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Ongoing deveopment work and WordNet related projects are done by a
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small group of researchers, lexicographers, and systems programmers.
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Since our resources are VERY limited, we request that you please
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confine correspondence to WordNet topics only. Please check the
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documentation, FAQ, and other resources for the answer to your
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question or problem before contacting us.
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If you have trouble installing or downloading WordNet, have a bug to
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report, or any other problem, please refer to the online FAQ file
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first. If you can heal thyself, please do so. The FAQ will be
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updated over time. And if you do find a previously unreported
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problem, please use our Bug Report Form:
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http://wordnet.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/bugsubmit.pl
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When reporting a problem, please be as specific as possible, stating
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the computer platform you are using, which interface you are using,
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and the exact error. The more details you can provide, the more
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likely it is that you will get an answer.
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There is a WordNet user discussion group mailing list that we invite
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our users to join. Users use this list to ask questions of one
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another, announce extensions to WordNet that they've developed, and
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other topics of general usefulness to the user community.
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Information on joining the user discussion list, reporting bugs and other
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contact information is in found on our website at:
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http://wordnet.princeton.edu/contact
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4. Current Release
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WordNet Version 3.0 is the latest version available for download. Two
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basic database packages are available - one for Windows and one for
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Unix platforms (including Mac OS X). See the file ChangeLog (Unix) or
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CHANGES.txt (Windows) for a list of changes from previous versions.
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WordNet packages can either be downloaded from our web site via:
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http://wordnet.princeton.edu/obtain
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The Windows package is a self-extracting archive that installs itself
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when you double-click on it.
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Beginning with Version 2.1, we changed the Unix package to a GNU Autotools
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package. The WordNet browser makes use of the open source Tcl and Tk
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packages. Many systems come with either or both pre-installed. If
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your system doesn't (some systems have Tcl installed, but not Tk)
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Tcl/Tk can be downloaded from:
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http://www.tcl.tk/
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Tcl and Tk must be installed BEFORE you compile WordNet. You must also
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have a C compiler before installing Tcl/Tk or WordNet. WordNet has
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been built and tested with the GNU gcc compiler. This is
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pre-installed on most Unix systems, and can be downloaded from:
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http://gcc.gnu.org/
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See the file INSTALL for detailed WordNet installation instructions.
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