NAME

BNCFreq.pl - Compute Information Content based on British National Corpus (World Edition)

SYNOPSIS

 BNCFreq.pl [--outfile=OUTFILE [--stopfile=STOPFILE]
         [--wnpath=WNPATH] [--resnik] [--smooth=SCHEME] PATH 
        | --help --version]

DESCRIPTION

This program reads the British National Corpus (World Edition, December 2000) and computes the frequency counts for each synset in WordNet. These frequency counts are used by the Lin, Resnik, and Jiang & Conrath measures of semantic relatedness to calculate the information content values of concepts. The output is generated in a format as required by the WordNet::Similarity modules for computing semantic relatedness.

A more detailed description of how information content is calculated can be found in rawtextFreq.pl. This program uses exactly the same techniques as described there.

OPTIONS

--outfile=filename

    The name of a file to which output should be written

--stopfile=filename

    A file containing a list of stop listed words that will not be
    considered in the frequency counts.  A sample file can be down-
    loaded from
    http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/Group01/WordNet/words.txt

--wnpath=path

    Location of the WordNet data files (e.g.,
    /usr/local/WordNet-3.0/dict)

--resnik

    Use Resnik (1995) frequency counting

--smooth=SCHEME

    Smoothing should used on the probabilities computed.  SCHEME can
    only be ADD1 at this time

--help

    Show a help message

--version

    Display version information

PATH

    Path to the root of the texts of the corpus.  (e.g.,
    /home/sid/BNC-word/Texts).

BUGS

Report to WordNet::Similarity mailing list : <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wn-similarity>

AUTHORS

 Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth
 tpederse at d.umn.edu

 Satanjeev Banerjee, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
 banerjee+ at cs.cmu.edu

 Siddharth Patwardhan, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
 sidd at cs.utah.edu

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.