NAME

Lingua::Verbnet -- extract stats from verbnet xml files

SYNOPSIS

        use Lingua::Verbnet;
        my @verbnet_xml_files = ... ;
        my $verbnet = Lingua::Verbnet->new(@verbnet_xml_files);
        $verbnet->ambiguity->score('cut'); # get the ambiguity score of the verb 'cut'
        my %stats = $verbnet->ambiguity->hash; # get the full ambiguity scores hash (verb => score)

DESCRIPTION

Potentially, collect and query various aspects of data from the verbnet XML files. Currently, supports just the ambiguity stats extraction.

METHODS

new

Constructor, arguments include the list of the source files to contain the verbnet XML data. If no arguments given, assumes reading from the STDIN.

ambiguity

Return an Lingua::Verbnet::Ambiguity object for querying the verb ambiguity stats.

THANKS

Published mainly for the purpose of demonstrating the concise way of using the Subs style of XML::Parser together with closures, which is inspired by DSSSL (thanks, James Clark!) and SGMLSpm script "sgmlspl.pl" by David Megginson (thanks, and blue skies!). Thanks also to Yuval Kogman for his persistent insistence that the above is a good enough reason to publish this on CPAN. Thanks to Dr. Michael Elhadad who asked me to do the cross-evaluation of two probabilistic parsers at http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~nlpproj/parse-eval/ , where this code originated.

SEE ALSO

verbstat(1), difficult(1), Lingua::Verbnet::Ambiguity, VerbNet at http://verbs.colorado.edu/verb-index/index.php

AUTHOR

Vassilii Khachaturov <vassilii@tarunz.org>

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html