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Wordnet 1.6 installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Mar 11 17:10:39 1998
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Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, facdev@MIT.EDU, cfyi@MIT.EDU, lippertm@MIT.EDU,
nindm@MIT.EDU, tat@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:08:55 EST
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I have updated Wordnet on Athena to release 1.6 for Sun/SGI/Linux/NetBSD.
To run it, do "add wordnet" followed by "wnb" at the Athena prompt (or
"wn" for a text-only interface).
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; its developers characterize it
as not so much a tool for supplying word meanings and definitions as
one for exploring the relationships between them. A lot of the information
provided by Wordnet is structural and hierarchical. It is a long-term project
involving enormous amounts of manual data entry.
There is online help, as well as man pages and HTML documentation (look in
/mit/wordnet/www and /mit/wordnet/www). There are also various READMEs in
the /mit/wordnet/wordnet_v1.6/distrib/wordnet1.6 directory, and Princeton's
Wordnet page at http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
Alex
