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DEBVisDic Manual

Installation of Debvisdic

How to install DEBVisDic

  • you may see http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/projects/deb2/install.html
  • Mozilla Firefox has to be installed first in an usual way (you download it using Google first)
  • When Firefox is installed go to the following address: http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/projekty/deb2/clients/
  • Click on DEBVisDic
  • Note: Before the first installation, you need to add our site nlp.fi.muni.cz to the list of sites allowed for installing. The dialog for adding the site to the list appears the first time you click on any installation package (at our site). Then you must Allow the site and next time you click on the package, you can begin the real installation.

Firefox alert before first installation Add server to allow installation

  • a window will open with 3 packages - click on Install

Packages for installation

  • close all windows in Firefox (with File -> Quit)
  • start Firefox again and DEBVisDic should appear as a new menu entry in Firefox Tools

First start

  • Click on Tools -> DEBVisDic
  • Log-in with your username and password
  • DEBVisDic will automatically install packages for all the WordNets you have access to
  • Close DEBVisDic and all Firefox windows (with File -> Quit)
  • Run DEBVisDic (for example, click on Tools -> DEBVisDic in Firefox)
  • Log-in with your username and password
  • You will see long and narrow DEBVisDic window

Choose WordNets

  • Click on Settings -> Preferences
  • Upper part of the window contains list of WordNets available to you. Select the packages in the left list (Ctrl+click, Shift+click to select multiple packages) and click the Add button. You can Add one WordNet several times, you'll get more windows for the same dictionary.
  • Click OK and selected WordNets will open
  • Now you can start working

Preferences window

How to uninstall/remove DEBVisDic

  • run Firefox (without the -chrome option)
  • in Tools -> Extensions (or Add-ons) select all DEBVisDic packages (debvisdic, jslib, and wn... for each wordnet) and Uninstall them

Short overview

Interface description (main components)

Each WordNet client is opened in its own dictionary, you can arrange those windows as you like on your desktop, or you can select one of the options in the Windows menu of DEBVisDic main window to arrange windows automatically.

WordNet window

1: Search query

Enter the search query into this box (previously used queries are automatically offered). The Search button will run the query only in the actual WordNet window, while the Search in all wiil run the same query in all open windows. Query possibilities are listed in section Search, queries

2: Result list

List of synstes found as a result of the query. Each line represents one synsets - PoS and list of literals. Click on a synset to display detailed information in the bottom part of the window.

3: Synset information

This part of window contains several tabs, by clicking on them you'll get detailed information about selected synset.

Synset information, tabs

  • Preview - text preview of a given synset. When you click on a synset link (for example hypernym), linked synset is selected and its information displayed.
  • Tree - hypernym/hyponym tree related to given synset. By default, selected synset is displayed plus all the hypernyms to the topmost one. By clicking on the [+] button in front of synset name in tree, the synset hyponyms are displayed. You can also click on [-] button to hide tree levels below. When you click on [+] again, all the hyponyms of synset are displayed.
  • Rev(ersed) Tree - basically, the same tree as before, only reversed upside-down. This time, hyponyms are up and hypernyms down.
  • Edit - form for synset editing and adding, see section Editing functions
  • XML - synset displayed in XML format

Search, queries

You can use several types of queries, from the basic ones to the advanced.

  • word - search for entries containing whole word in literals, for example dog will give you all the synsets with dog in literals (even multiword literals, like Eskimo dog)
  • word: - search for exact literal, for example dog: will find all synsets with literal dog (exactly this one word)
  • word:number - search for entries containg whole word with sense number, for example dog:3
  • xml_element=value - search for value of xml_element, for example SYNSET.POS=n will find all nouns
  • xml_element=dictionary_code2:entry_id2:xml_element2 - search for xml_element with value from xml_element2 of entry_id2 in dictionary_code2, for example SYNSET.SUMO=sumo:BodyPart:CONCEPT.ID will lookup the entry with BodyPart in sumo dictionary and take the value of element CONCEPT.ID and then search for all synsets with given value in element SYNSET.SUMO

Inter-WordNet functions

Usually, WordNets are connected using InterLanguage Identifiers. If you right-click in the lower part of WordNet window, you'll see the dictionary context menu (see picture).

WordNet context menu

Now, let's have a look at the first five menu entries. Show in allows you to display entry with the same ID in another WordNet, for example see the entry linked to english synset in Czech WordNet. When you select this entry, you'll see the list of dictionaries connected to the actual one. When you click on a dictionary name, linked entry is displayed in selected dictionary.

Show in (by) is similar, but uses different elements to link between entries. For example, you can display SUMO entry for the SUMO information stored in synset.

AutoLookUp in works similar to Show in. When you click on dictionary name, the tick appears (or disappears) in front of the name. When you select another synset in actual dictionary, all the ticked dictionaries are automatically updated to show the entry with the same ID. For example: in English WordNet you tick AutoLookUp in Czech and Polish !Wordnets. Whenever you select synset in English WN (by clicking in result list, on a link in preview or on a synset in tree), czech and polish synset is automatically displayed.

AutoLookUp in (by) is a combination of Show in (by) and AutoLookUp in.

AutoLookUp by search - whenever you search in actual dictionary, the same query is automatically run in all the ticked dictionaries.

Editing functions

Writing a new synset

Create new synset

Changing the existing synset

Edit synset

Inter-WordNet functions - linking to other WordNets

Relations editing

Locking synsets

Typical errors

  • Do not try to write a new synset on the first top line (box). To enter a new synset you have to open the Edit tab.
  • When entering a relation between two synsets or linking two synsets via ILI, always check whether they both exist.
  • Do not forget to click on the New button when entering a new synset and the Save button when you want to store it. If you do not click the Save button, nothing will be stored.
  • Avoid entering one synset twice or more times.

Linguistic recommendations

  • Use a synonymical dictionary if it exists for a given language.
  • A good explanatory dictionary of a given language should be used for establishing hyperonym relations on the first level, e.g chair is a piece of furniture.
  • To find reliable translation equivalents use parallel corpora.

How to write a synset?

  • You decide what literals a synset will consist of and what part of speech it belongs to: noun (n), verb (v), adjective (a) or adverb (b)
  • When you open the Edit tab, click on New, then type down a respective literal (one or more), assign it a symbol of PoS and click Save.
  • If you do not click Save, all what you wrote will be lost.

Numbering senses

  • A new synset (in fact, any synset) has to be always numbered, i.e. you have to provide a sense number for it.
  • Sense number distinguishes the different senses of synset, e.g. bank:1 - financial institution, bank:2 as in "river bank".
  • It is usual as you can observe in Princeton WordNet (v. 2.0 and higher) to assign lower numbers (1, 2, 3) to the basic senses.
  • It can be seen that senses in PWN 2.0 are quite often too fine grained - see e.g. verb to get with 36 senses. We recommend to translate only the senses that can be confirmed in a corpus.

Eq_Relations, IL relations, ILI

Glossary of basic terms

  • synset
  • literal
  • sense
  • IL relations: synonymy, antonymy, hyperonymy/hyponymy, holo/meronymy, deriv
  • EQ_relations
  • Interlingual Index
  • Set of Base Concepts
  • Top Ontology
  • ...

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