WordNet Utilities

• Display random pairs of word senses from WordNet

  The program randomPairs.pl generates random pairs of word senses from WordNet.
  
  randomPairs-v1.1 (01/15/04)

• Display WordNet Glosses as Plain Text

  The program glossExtract.pl will output a single text file that contains WordNet glosses. It has options to display the words or offsets associated with each gloss. This program allows you to treat the WordNet glosses as a plain text corpus.
  
  glossExtract-v0.03 (01/15/04)

  • Output of glossExtract.pl

    • WordNet 2.0 Gloss Corpus, consists of 1.4 million tokens and 115,000 glosses. Available in 3 different formats, 1) gloss only 2) gloss with word#pos#sense and 3) gloss with offset

• Display Compounds in WordNet

  The program compounds.pl produces a complete list of all the compounds found in your currently installed version of WordNet.
  
  compounds-v0.3 (07/30/03)

  • Output of compounds.pl

    • WordNet 2.0 Compound Words wn20compounds.txt (12/17/03), consists of 63,000 compounds
      
    • WordNet 1.7.1 Compound Words wn171compounds.txt (07/31/03), consists of 60,000 compounds

• Identify WordNet Compounds in Senseval-2 Data

  The program compoundSval2.pl finds WordNet compounds in Senseval-2 formatted text.
  
  compoundSval2-v0.3 (07/30/03) (v0.1 README still applies!)
  compoundSval2-v0.1 (12/18/01) Readme

• Map from QueryData to WordNet sense-keys

  QueryData identifies WordNet senses using a word#pos#sense format. WordNet identifies senses using sense-keys (aka mnemonics). This program creates a mapping between the QueryData format and the WordNet sense-key format. (This tool is not specific to Senseval-2 data - it is generally useful if are using QueryData to access WordNet.)
  
  QueryData to WordNet (3/20/02) Readme
  QueryData to WordNet for Windows (1/28/03) (Thanks to Luigi Bianchi!)

• A WordNet Stop List

  There are some common non-content words that have unexpected meanings in WordNet. See them here .

By: Ted Pedersen - tpederse AT d umn edu