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:
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
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
Perl version 5.6 or later. This package has been written in Perl, which is freely available from www.perl.org. This package assumes that perl is installed in the directory /usr/bin. If this is where perl is on your computer, then the support programs can be run directly at the command line as 'similarity.pl ...' or 'semCorFreq.pl...', etc. However, if Perl is not installed at this location, you would need to explicitly invoke them as 'perl similarity.pl ... ' or 'perl freqCount.pl...', etc.
WordNet: All the measures are based on WordNet. WordNet must be installed on your system. WordNet is freely downloadable from http://wordnet.princeton.edu. WordNet version 3.0 was used during the development and testing of the package. Unfortunately, due to major changes in WordNet (and WordNet::QueryData) from version 2.0 to 2.1, this version of WordNet::Similarity supports only WordNet 2.1 (or later). The WordNet::QueryData Perl module is used to access WordNet. This module requires that an environment variable 'WNHOME', containing the path to the WordNet files, be set up. For further details, please see the WordNet::QueryData documentation.
WordNet::QueryData: This is the Perl interface to WordNet written by Jason Rennie. QueryData should be accessible on the @INC path of Perl. (Can be freely downloaded from http://search.cpan.org/dist/WordNet-QueryData). QueryData 1.46 was used during the development. Also we observed that that due to some major changes in QueryData from its previous versions, this software does not work with the earlier versions of QueryData. If you have an earlier version of QueryData (1.38 or earlier) you may need to upgrade QueryData.
Text::Similarity: This module is used by the WordNet::Similarity::lesk measure for finding runs of word overlaps in glosses. The Text::Similarity module can be downloaded from http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Similarity.
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://wordnetcode.princeton.edu/3.0/WordNet-3.0.tar.gz wget https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/J/JR/JRENNIE/WordNet-QueryData-1.49.tar.gz wget https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/T/TP/TPEDERSE/Text-Similarity-0.10.tar.gz wget https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/T/TP/TPEDERSE/WordNet-Similarity-2.07.tar.gz
Then unpack each one:
tar -zxvf WordNet-3.0.tar.gz tar -zxvf WordNet-QueryData-1.49.tar.gz tar -zxvf Text-Similarity-0.10.tar.gz tar -zxvf WordNet-Similarity-2.07.tar.gz
Install WordNet:
cd /tmp/WordNet-3.0 ./configure make su make install exit
Installing QueryData and Similarity:
cd /tmp/WordNet-QueryData-1.49 perl Makefile.PL make make test su make install exit cd /tmp/Text-Similarity-0.10 perl Makefile.PL make make test su make install exit cd /tmp/WordNet-Similarity-2.05 perl Makefile.PL make make test su make install exit
intro.pod
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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Note: a copy of the GNU Free Documentation License is available on the web at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html and is included in this distribution as FDL.txt.
To install WordNet::Similarity, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm WordNet::Similarity
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install WordNet::Similarity
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.