From: Glenn <glenn_ritz@...>
Date: 2008-04-05T23:54:40+09:00
Subject: Wordnet and Ruby

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Hi,

I am trying to use the Wordnet dictionary (http://wordnet.princeton.edu/) with Ruby and am not having any luck.

There is a Ruby tie-in for Wordnet.  The project's home page is at http://www.deveiate.org/projects/Ruby-WordNet/.  It's not clear to me whether this is an active project, or if Ruby-Wordnet can be installed on Windows.  I tried, but I don't think it installed successfully.  If anyone has any insight into this, it would be greatly appreciated.  I'd like to know also if there is a way to install Ruby-Wordnet as a gem.

The project that I am working on involves parsing text and replacing the words in the text with their parts of speech, so I need to have access to a sizable English dictionary, preferably one that is free (or cheap) and freely available.  If anyone knows about such a dictionary, and knows how to tie it in with Ruby, and could let me know about it, that would be great.  If such a add-on was a Ruby gem, even better.

I am using Ruby 1.8.6 on Windows XP.

Thanks for your help.

Glenn


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