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From: ramu ramamurthy <ramu_ramamurthy@yahoo.com>
Subject: ANNOUNCE - OCaml interface to WordNet
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This package contains the OCaml Interface to WordNet.
It enables Ocaml programs to use
the Wordnet dictionary for (english) word forms and
meanings. For more information on WordNet refer
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/

This library directly parses the WordNet dictionary
files, and does not depend on any other libraries.
This library is released under the BSD license and
is available at:

http://ramamurthy.ramu.googlepages.com/ocamlwordnet


The package contains:

    * README.txt 
    * wordnet.mli (Module Interface)
    * wordnet.ml  (Module Implementation)
    * related.ml  (Example Application OCaml WordNet
API)


Example Application:

related.ml contains a toy application of the 
api. Given a word, it finds related words - related
as a synonym or as a "sibling" under the HYPONYM/
HYPERNYM relationship between meanings.

   relatedWords "camel"
   gives

 [(0, "camel"); (0, "hippo"); (0, "hippopotamus");
 (0, "hippopotamus_amphibius"); (0, "llama"); (0,
"musk_hog");
 (0, "peccary"); (0, "river_horse"); (0, "ruminant");
(0, "swine");
 (0, "vicugna_vicugna"); (0, "vicuna")]

   relatedWords "google"
   gives

 [(0, "google"); (0, "google"); (1, "cast_around");
(1, "re-explore");
 (0, "ask_jeeves"); (0, "beat_about"); (0,
"cast_about"); (0, "prospect");
 (0, "yahoo")]

Ramu Ramamurthy