INSTALL - [documentation] How to install WordNet::Similarity
perl Makefile.PL make make test make install
You need to have WordNet (version 3.0) installed, WordNet::QueryData (version 1.40 or later), and Text::Similarity (version 0.04 or later) installed.
[NOTE: However, if you're using WordNet 3.0, you must use WordNet::QueryData v1.46 or above. WordNet::QueryData v1.40 through v1.45 can only be used with WordNet 2.1.]
WordNet is available at http://wordnet.princeton.edu, WordNet::QueryData is available from http://search.cpan.org/dist/WordNet-QueryData, and Text::Similarity is available from http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Similarity.
You should set the WNHOME environment variable to the location where you have WordNet installed; see the WordNet::QueryData documentation for more information.
The usual way to install the package is to run the following commands:
perl Makefile.PL make make test make install
If you can't set the WNHOME environment variable, you can use the WNHOME option when running perl Makefile.PL. For example,
perl Makefile.PL WNHOME=/usr/local/WordNet-3.0
You will often need root access/superuser priviledges to run make install. The module can also be installed locally. To do a local install, you need to specify a PREFIX option when you run 'perl Makefile.PL'. For example,
perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/sid
or
perl Makefile.PL LIB=/home/sid/lib PREFIX=/home/sid
will install Similarity into /home/sid. The first method above will install the modules in /home/sid/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 (assuming you are using version 5.8.3 of Perl; otherwise, the directory will be slightly different). The second method will install the modules in /home/sid/lib. In either case the executable scripts will be installed in /home/sid/bin and the man pages will be installed in home/sid/share.
Warning: do not put a dash or hyphen in front of PREFIX, LIB or WNHOME.
In your perl programs that you may write using the modules, you may need to add a line like so
use lib '/home/sid/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3';
if you used the first method or
use lib '/home/sid/lib';
if you used the second method. By doing this, the installed modules are found by your program. To run the similarity.pl program, you would need to do
perl -I/home/sid/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 similarity.pl
or
perl -I/home/sid/lib
Of course, you could also add the 'use lib' line to the top of the program yourself, but you might not want to do that. You will need to replace 5.8.3 with whatever version of Perl you are using. The preceeding instructions should be sufficient for standard and slightly non-standard installations. However, if you need to modify other makefile options you should look at the ExtUtils::MakeMaker documentation. Modifying other makefile options is not recommended unless you really, absolutely, and completely know what you're doing!
NOTE: The information-content based measures (res, lin, jcn) are invoked using the default information content file generated during installation of the modules. If, however, the version of WordNet being used on your system has changed since that time, or for some reason the modules are unable to locate the default information content files, then alternate information content files can be specified only by using a configuration file corresponding to each of the modules. Format and creation of configuration files has been discussed in the documentation. Utilities to generate information content files have been provided in the package.
NOTE: If one (or more) of the tests run by 'make test' fails, you will see a summary of the tests that failed, followed by a message of the form "make: *** [test_dynamic] Error Y" where Y is a number between 1 and 255 (inclusive). If the number is less than 255, then it indicates how many test failed (if more than 254 tests failed, then 254 will still be shown). If one or more tests died, then 255 will be shown. For more details, see:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Simple/lib/Test/Builder.pm#EXIT_CODES
Version 0.04 or better is required in order to be compatible with Perl version 5.6 and better.
Running 'make install' after make will run a short series of tests. These tests should not take more than a few minutes to run. There is another series of more rigorous tests that may also be run; however, these tests can take quite some time to run (over an hour on some machines). To run these tests, run 'make test_all'.
The following procedure will work on most Linux systems.
cd /tmp wget http://wordnet.princeton.edu/3.0/WordNet-3.0.tar.gz wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JR/JRENNIE/WordNet-QueryData-1.46.tar.gz wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/J/JA/JASONM/Text-Similarity-0.02.tar.gz wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/T/TP/TPEDERSE/WordNet-Similarity-2.01.tar.gz
Then unpack each one:
tar -zxvf WordNet-3.0.tar.gz tar -zxvf WordNet-QueryData-1.46.tar.gz tar -zxvf Text-Similarity-0.02.tar.gz tar -zxvf WordNet-Similarity-2.01.tar.gz
Install WordNet:
cd /tmp/WordNet-3.0 ./configure make su make install exit
Installing QueryData and Similarity:
cd /tmp/WordNet-QueryData-1.46 perl Makefile.PL make make test su make install exit cd /tmp/Text-Similarity-0.02 perl Makefile.PL make make test su make install exit cd /tmp/WordNet-Similarity-2.01 perl Makefile.PL make make test su make install exit
Mailing list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wn-similarity
Project Home page: http://wn-similarity.sourceforge.net
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota Duluth tpederse at d.umn.edu Siddharth Patwardhan, University of Utah, Salt Lake City sidd at cs.utah.edu Satanjeev Banerjee, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh banerjee+ at cs.cmu.edu Jason Michelizzi
Copyright (c) 2005-2008, Ted Pedersen, Siddharth Patwardhan, Satanjeev Banerjee, and Jason Michelizzi
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