NAME

vectorFile - Provides access to the word vectors database.

SYNOPSIS

use vectorFile;

my ($dCount, $dims, $vecRef) = vectorFile->readVectors($filename);

vectorFile->writeVectors($fname, $dCount, $dims, $vecRef);

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a read/write interface into the word vectors data file. This module is used by WordNet::Similarity::vector and WordNet::Similarity::vector_pairs as an interface into the word vectors database. This module abstracts the format of the data file away from the user.

Methods

readVectors

This method reads in a word vectors file, and returns the document count, the words corresponding to the dimensions of the vectors, and a reference to an array containing the list of word vectors.

Parameters: $file -- the file name of the word vectors file.

Returns: ($dCount, $dims, $vecRef)

writeVectors

This method writes out a list of word vectors to the word vectors file.

Parameters: $fname, $dCount, $dims, $vecRef

Returns: none

SEE ALSO

perl(1), WordNet::Similarity(3), WordNet::QueryData(3)

http://www.cs.utah.edu/~sidd

http://wordnet.princeton.edu

http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/WordNet

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wn-similarity

AUTHORS

Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota Duluth
tpederse at d.umn.edu

Siddharth Patwardhan, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
sidd at cs.utah.edu

BUGS

None.

To report bugs, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wn-similarity/ or e-mail "tpederse at d.umn.edu".

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2005, Ted Pedersen 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.

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