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A fork of the WordNet 3.0.
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		This is the README file for WordNet 3.0



0. About this fork



This fork is based on the source code downloaded from

http://wordnetcode.princeton.edu/3.0/WordNet-3.0.tar.gz on 2014-01-11T17:53Z.

The sha512sum of the file is

9539bc016d710f31d65072bbf5068edffcd735978d8cc6f1b361b19428b97546ef6c7e246e1b6f2ff4557a0885a8305341e35173a6723f0740dda18d097ca248.



The fork is made for the purposes of maintenance as no active development of

WordNet seems to be going on.



1. About WordNet



WordNet was developed at Princeton University's Cognitive Science

Laboratory under the direction of George Miller, James S. McDonnell

Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Emeritus. Over the

years many linguists, lexicographers, students, and software engineers

have contributed to the project.



WordNet is an online lexical reference system.  Word forms in WordNet

are represented in their familiar orthography; word meanings are

represented by synonym sets (synsets) - lists of synonymous word forms

that are interchangeable in some context.  Two kinds of relations are

recognized: lexical and semantic.  Lexical relations hold between word

forms; semantic relations hold between word meanings.  



To learn more about WordNet, the book "WordNet: An Electronic Lexical

Database," containing an updated version of "Five Papers on WordNet"

and additional papers by WordNet users, is available from MIT Press:



    http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=026206197X



2. The WordNet Web Site



We maintain a Web site at:



http://wordnet.princeton.edu



Information about WordNet, access to our online interface, and the

various WordNet packages that you can download are available from our

web site.  All of the software documentation is available online, as

well as a FAQ.  On this site we also have information about other

applications that use WordNet. If you have an application that you

would like included, please send e-mail to the above address.



3. Contacting Us



Ongoing deveopment work and WordNet related projects are done by a

small group of researchers, lexicographers, and systems programmers.

Since our resources are VERY limited, we request that you please

confine correspondence to WordNet topics only.  Please check the

documentation, FAQ, and other resources for the answer to your

question or problem before contacting us.



If you have trouble installing or downloading WordNet, have a bug to

report, or any other problem, please refer to the online FAQ file

first.  If you can heal thyself, please do so.  The FAQ will be

updated over time.  And if you do find a previously unreported

problem, please use our Bug Report Form:



http://wordnet.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/bugsubmit.pl



When reporting a problem, please be as specific as possible, stating

the computer platform you are using, which interface you are using,

and the exact error.  The more details you can provide, the more

likely it is that you will get an answer. 



There is a WordNet user discussion group mailing list that we invite

our users to join.  Users use this list to ask questions of one

another, announce extensions to WordNet that they've developed, and

other topics of general usefulness to the user community.



Information on joining the user discussion list, reporting bugs and other

contact information is in found on our website at:



http://wordnet.princeton.edu/contact



4. Current Release



WordNet Version 3.0 is the latest version available for download.  Two

basic database packages are available - one for Windows and one for

Unix platforms (including Mac OS X).  See the file ChangeLog (Unix) or

CHANGES.txt (Windows) for a list of changes from previous versions.



WordNet packages can either be downloaded from our web site via:



http://wordnet.princeton.edu/obtain



The Windows package is a self-extracting archive that installs itself

when you double-click on it.



Beginning with Version 2.1, we changed the Unix package to a GNU Autotools

package.  The WordNet browser makes use of the open source Tcl and Tk

packages. Many systems come with either or both pre-installed.  If

your system doesn't (some systems have Tcl installed, but not Tk)

Tcl/Tk can be downloaded from:



http://www.tcl.tk/ 



Tcl and Tk must be installed BEFORE you compile WordNet. You must also

have a C compiler before installing Tcl/Tk or WordNet.  WordNet has

been built and tested with the GNU gcc compiler.  This is

pre-installed on most Unix systems, and can be downloaded from:



http://gcc.gnu.org/



See the file INSTALL for detailed WordNet installation instructions.