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NAME

wnintro - WordNet user commands

SYNOPSIS

escort - search semantic concordances for sentences containing semantic tags

wn - command line interface to WordNet database

wnb - window based WordNet browser

DESCRIPTION

This section of the WordNet Reference Manual contains manual pages that describe commands available with the various WordNet system packages.

The WordNet interfaces wn(1WN) and wnb(1WN) allow the user to search the WordNet database and display the information textually. escort(1WN) is a window based browser for searching the semantic concordances.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

WNHOME
Base directory for WordNet. Unix default is /usr/local/wordnet1.6 , PC default is C:\wn16 , Macintosh default is : .
WNSEARCHDIR
Directory in which the WordNet database has been installed. Unix default is WNHOME/dict , PC default is WNHOME\dict , Macintosh default is :Database .
WNDBVERSION
Indicates which format the WordNet database files in WNSEARCHDIR are in. The default is 1.6 . Setting WNDBVERION to 1.5 allows the 1.6 commands to work with the 1.5 database files.

SEE ALSO

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

Miller, G. A. (1990), ed. "WordNet: An On-Line Lexical Database" . International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 3, Number 4.

Miller, G. A., et al. (1990, 1993). "Five Papers on WordNet" . Cognitive Science Laboratory Report 43. (Available from ftp://ftp.cogsci.princeton.edu/wordnet/ .)

Fellbaum, C. (1998), ed. "WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database" . MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

AVAILABILITY

WordNet has a World Wide Web site at http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ . From this web site users can learn about the WordNet project, run several different interfaces to the WordNet database, and download various WordNet system packages and "Five Papers on WordNet" .


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