NAME
BNCFreq.pl - Compute Information Content based on British National Corpus (World Edition)
SYNOPSIS
BNCFreq.pl [--outfile=OUTFILE [--stopfile=STOPFILE]
[--wnpath=WNPATH] [--resnik] [--smooth=SCHEME] PATH
| --help --version]DESCRIPTION
This program reads the British National Corpus (World Edition, December 2000) and computes the frequency counts for each synset in WordNet. These frequency counts are used by the Lin, Resnik, and Jiang & Conrath measures of semantic relatedness to calculate the information content values of concepts. The output is generated in a format as required by the WordNet::Similarity modules for computing semantic relatedness.
A more detailed description of how information content is calculated can be found in rawtextFreq.pl. This program uses exactly the same techniques as described there.
OPTIONS
--outfile=filename
The name of a file to which output should be written--stopfile=filename
A file containing a list of stop listed words that will not be
considered in the frequency counts. A sample file can be down-
loaded from
http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/Group01/WordNet/words.txt--wnpath=path
Location of the WordNet data files (e.g.,
/usr/local/WordNet-3.0/dict)--resnik
Use Resnik (1995) frequency counting--smooth=SCHEME
Smoothing should used on the probabilities computed. SCHEME can
only be ADD1 at this time--help
Show a help message--version
Display version informationPATH
Path to the root of the texts of the corpus. (e.g.,
/home/sid/BNC-word/Texts).BUGS
Report to WordNet::Similarity mailing list : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wn-similarity
SEE ALSO
Please note that the BNC World Edition has been superceded by the BNC XML Edition. Please contact the BNC for more information about the continued availabiliy of BNC World:
L<http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/>WordNet home page : http://wordnet.princeton.edu
WordNet::Similarity home page : http://wn-similarity.sourceforge.net
AUTHORS
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth
tpederse at d.umn.edu
Satanjeev Banerjee, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
banerjee+ at cs.cmu.edu
Siddharth Patwardhan, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
sidd at cs.utah.eduCOPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2005-2008, Ted Pedersen, Satanjeev Banerjee, and Siddharth Patwardhan
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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