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Wordnet on Athena updated to release 1.7
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Aug 24 18:20:10 2001
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 18:19:59 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've updated Wordnet on Athena to release 1.7 for Sun/Linux/SGI.
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_v1.7/man). Also
html documentation (start from http://web.mit.edu/www/wnb.htm) and various
READMEs (in the /mit/wordnet_v1.7 directory).
Alex
