Corpora: WordNet for Perl!

[Peter Littlechild]

Doug,

Very interesting. Do you know if
> the mod_perl - enabled Apache server for Win9X
also runs on NT4?

Rgds
Peter Littlechild


Doug Cooper wrote:
>
> In a dramatic proof of the efficacy of fasting and prayer in software
> development, I just rec'd the following pointer from the
> wn-users at princeton.edu group:
>
> > Check out Jason Rennie's perl modules to access Wordnet:
> > http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/WordNet/
>
> They work.  Windows users will have to make some minor changes in
> QueryData.pm:
>    /usr/local/bin should become c:/wn16/dict or equivalent.
>  "index.noun" etc. filenames must become "noun.idx" etc.,
>  "data.noun" etc. must become "noun.dat" etc.
>
> Takes about 25 seconds to crank up on a 233/Pent II.  Fortunately, you can
> now download a binary of the mod_perl - enabled Apache server for
> Win9X (this keeps both Perl and any scripts you run resident for the life
> of the server) from:
>
>  ftp://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/other/
>
> This is about 10 megs because it includes a (necessary) Perl build
> and libraries.  Installation is nearly painless; just have to set a few
> Apache options (in the file that DOS windows call httpd~4.con).
>   They were also kind enough to compile a downloadable binary
> of Berkeley DB in the same directory.
>   Oh, one other useful piece of software:  teleport (http://www.tenmax.com)
> lets you run a Web spyder over a vanilla dialup line from Win9x.  With
> disk at ten bucks per gigabyte, it's a whole new ballgame for corpus work.
>
>   -- Doug
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