NAME

semCorRawFreq.pl - Compute Information Content from SemCor corpus (raw form, without using sense-tags)

SYNOPSIS

semCorRawFreq.pl --outfile FILE [--stopfile FILE] [--resnik]
 [--wnpath PATH] [--smooth SCHEME] {--stdin 
 | --infile FILE [--infile FILE ...]}
 | --help | --version

DESCRIPTION

This program reads SemCor files and computes the frequency counts for each synset in WordNet, ignoring the sense tags in the corpus (treating it like a raw text corpus). These frequency counts are used by various 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.

The SemCor data we use comes from Rada Mihalcea, who has mapped SemCor from its original version to each successive version of WordNet. In this program we ignore the SenseTags and simply treat SemCor as raw text. This is to allow for the comparison of the effect of counting from sense tags (as done in semCorFreq.pl) versus raw or plain word forms (as done here).

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" words that will not be
considered during the frequency computation

--resnik

Use Resnik (1995) frequency counting

--wnpath=path

Location of the WordNet data files (e.g.,
/usr/local/WordNet-3.0/dict)

--smooth=SCHEME

Smoothing should used on the probabilities computed. SCHEME can
only be ADD1 at this time

--stdin

Use this flag to provide input via the standard input

--infile=filename

Get the input from the specified file.

--help

Show a help message

--version

Display version information

BUGS

Report to WordNet::Similarity mailing list : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wn-similarity

SEE ALSO

WordNet::Similarity

SemCor Download (from Rada Mihalcea):

L<http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/downloads.html#semcor>

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.edu

COPYRIGHT

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.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.