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NAME

wnintro - WordNet user commands

SYNOPSIS

escort - search semantic concordances for sentences containing semantic tags

wn - command line interface to WordNet database

wnb - window based WordNet browser

DESCRIPTION

This section of the WordNet Reference Manual contains manual pages that
describe commands available with the various WordNet system packages.

The WordNet interfaces wn(1WN) and wnb(1WN) allow the user to search the
WordNet database and display the information textually. escort(1WN) is a
window based browser for searching the semantic concordances.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

WNHOME
     Base directory for WordNet. Unix default is /usr/local/wordnet1.6 , PC
     default is C:\wn16 , Macintosh default is : .
WNSEARCHDIR
     Directory in which the WordNet database has been installed. Unix
     default is WNHOME/dict , PC default is WNHOME\dict , Macintosh default
     is :Database .
WNDBVERSION
     Indicates which format the WordNet database files in WNSEARCHDIR are
     in. The default is 1.6 . Setting WNDBVERION to 1.5 allows the 1.6
     commands to work with the 1.5 database files.

SEE ALSO

wnintro(3WN) , wnintro(5WN) , wnintro(7WN) .

Miller, G. A. (1990), ed. "WordNet: An On-Line Lexical Database" .
International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 3, Number 4.

Miller, G. A., et al. (1990, 1993). "Five Papers on WordNet" . Cognitive
Science Laboratory Report 43. (Available from
ftp://ftp.cogsci.princeton.edu/wordnet/ .)

Fellbaum, C. (1998), ed. "WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database" . MIT
Press, Cambridge, MA.

AVAILABILITY

WordNet has a World Wide Web site at http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ .
From this web site users can learn about the WordNet project, run several
different interfaces to the WordNet database, and download various WordNet
system packages and "Five Papers on WordNet" .

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   * NAME
   * SYNOPSIS
   * DESCRIPTION
   * ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
   * SEE ALSO
   * AVAILABILITY
