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wnintro - WordNet user commands
escort - search semantic
concordances for sentences containing semantic tags
wn - command line
interface to WordNet database
wnb - window based WordNet browser
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.
- 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.
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.
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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