[1738] in Software_Announce
Wordnet on Athena updated to 2.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Feb 10 14:57:52 2006
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:57:38 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've updated Wordnet on Athena to release 2.1.
Wordnet is a lexicographical database from Princeton University that
most closely resembles a thesaurus, although it also has features of a
dictionary an even an encyclopedia, and some unique ones that
are best experienced by trying it out. There is a text-only and a
graphical interface. To run the former:
add wordnet; wn <word> <options>
and the latter:
add wordnet; wnb
where <word> is a word being looked up and <options> is one or more of
many command-line options. There are man pages for wn and wnb (and
others for related utilities- look below /mit/wordnet_v2.1/man). Also
html documentation (start from http://web.mit.edu/wordnet/www, although
this may not be currently working due to ongoing problems with MITnet).
The top level of the wordnet_v2.1 locker has a variety of other
documentation.
Alex
