Re: XML and WordNet

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.

Received on Friday, 7 September 2001 11:19:18 UTC