- From: <info@lingo.kiev.ua>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 03:33:00 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Cc: Tobias GĂbel <tobias.goebel@web.de>, wn-users@princeton.edu, www-archive@w3.org
Dan Brickley wrote: > > (+cc: www-archive for reference; is wn-users archived anywhere?) > > On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, =?iso-8859-1?Q? Tobias=20G=F6bel ?= wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am in need of an XML specification for the input and output of WordNet. A DTD or something that specifies how the output of WordNet can be coded as an XML document would be nice. > > (Or even better: a script that translates WordNet output into an XML document, e.g. to code hypernym trees). > > Does anyone have information or code on that? > > Thank you very much in advance, > > Tobias Goebel > > I have a work-in-progress version of Wordnet as an RDF Schema / > Ontology. The specific XML representation is determined by RDF's XML > syntax rules, so I didn't (thankfully) have to give any thought to the > details of the elements/attributes in the markup. > > The goal was to be able to write XML/RDF documents that use tags from an > "XML namespace" consisting of the classes implicit in WordNet's hypernym > hierarchy. My Perl code is too buggy to give out; if there was a nice Perl > API for WordNet I could use I'd happily recode this and circulate. > > Rough details are online at http://xmlns.com/2001/08/wordnet/ > > ...do note the 'Issues' though; there is a serious problem with the > current encoding: it confuses specific terms with the synsets they fall > in. This came about due to the way my code works, I parse the output of > the wordnet command line tools; hence my desire for a cleaner API to build > things with. There is perl interface to wordnet at http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/WordNet/. In addition, try http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=wordnet There are even SQL mappings of wordnet at http://www.teleport.com/~patrick/wordnetsql/ Both have been circulating on this list.
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