MacWordNet - version 1.5 This is the readme file for the Macintosh version of WordNet 1.5. Installing MacWordNet requires at least 23Mb of free disk space on your Macintosh. If you wish to obtain MacWordNet via ftp, you also require a file transfer utility such as NCSA Telnet or Fetch to be running on your Macintosh. MacWordNet is also distributed on diskette (3 1/2" high density only) To receive MacWordNet on diskette, please send a check for $25, payable in US currency, to Princeton University to the address listed at the end of this document. Obtaining MacWordNet via ftp and installing it: *** When transferring to the Macintosh, remember to ftp *** MacWordNet1.5.sit.bin in MacBinary mode. Note that *** this is different from standard binary or image mode. If you have an ftp client for your Macintosh, such as Fetch or NSCA/BYU Telnet, you may initiate an anonymous ftp session directly to clarity.princeton.edu and transfer MacWordNet from clarity directly to your Macintosh. Note that standard NCSA Telnet does not support direct ftp connections. If do not have an ftp client for your Macintosh, you will first have to log on to a UNIX machine on which you have an account, ftp the file to your UNIX machine, and then ftp MacWordNet from this machine to your Macintosh. MacWordNet is distributed as a Stuffit file. The file that you should ftp is MacWordNet1.5.sit.bin. If you do not have the UnStuffit program, you should also ftp UnStuffit-Deluxe-TM.bin. Once you have MacWordNet on your Macintosh, you must unpack the MacWordNet1.5.sit archive by running UnStuffit and selecting the MacWordNet.sit archive as the one to unpack. After several minutes this should unpack a folder called "Database", a folder called "WordNet Manual", an application called "MacWordNet", and the two printing appliations "SendPS" and "LaserWriter Utility" in the current folder. You should now be able to run "MacWordNet" by simply double clicking on the "MacWordNet" icon. You can print the documentation as described below. Installing MacWordNet from diskette: MacWordNet is distributed on 5 diskettes as 5 segments of a self-extracting archive. You should copy all 5 diskettes into the folder in which you want WordNet installed, then double click on the "MacWordNet15.sea" icon to decompress and install the archive. This should unpack a folder called "Database", a folder called "WordNet Manual", an application called "MacWordNet", and the two printing appliations "SendPS" and "LaserWriter Utility" in the current folder. You should now be able to run "MacWordNet" by simply double clicking on the "MacWordNet" icon. You can print the documentation as described below. Printing the MacWordNet documentation: The WordNet documentation consists of "man" pages that are distributed both as Postscript files (eg. "wn1.ps"), and as plain text files (eg. "wn1.txt"). The plain text files can be browsed by double clicking on them (which starts TeachText or SimpleText). All manuals are located in the folder "WordNet Manual", and can be printed using either the "LaserWriter Utility" application (System 7) or the "SendPS" application(System 6). Both of these utilities are included in the distribution - you should use whichever one works with your system. Problems with MacWordNet There is a known bug with "Grouped Searches" of some nouns when MacWordNet is run on a PowerPC Macintosh. MacWordNet terminates abnormally on these searches. We have not yet been able to resolve the problem. Ordinary Macintosh computers should not have this problem. Please report any bugs to the WordNet team at Princeton by sending email to wordnet@princeton.edu, or by writing to the address listed at the end of this document. The Sense Index New with version 1.5 is the "sense index". The sense index provides an alternative method for accessing synsets in the WordNet database. A specific WordNet sense can be used to directly index into this file and obtain the WordNet sense number and synset address for the sense. The sense index file is 5.6 MB, and is not used by WordNet interfaces. Due to it's size, and the fact that it is not needed by the package, it is not included in the Macintosh package. It can be obtained and installed via ftp as described earlier, or on 2 diskettes by writing to the address below. There is an additional charge of $10 for the diskettes. Please send a check, payable in US currency, to Princeton University to the address below. Contact address: Pamela Wakefield Department of Psychology Green Hall Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544-1010 Attn: WordNet