DEBVisDic Manual

Table of contents

1. Installation of Debvisdic
1.1 How to install DEBVisDic
1.2 Starting Debvisdic
1.3 How to uninstall/remove DEBVisDic
2. Short overview
2.1. Interface description (main components)
2.2 Basic Search - basic queries
2.2.1 Query language
2.2.2 Advanced queries
2.3. Bookmarks -View, Tree, RevTree, XML
2.3.1 Inter- WordNet functions
2.4. Editing functions
2.4.1 Writing a new synset
2.4.2 Changing the existing synset
2.4.2.1 Inter- WordNet functions - linking to other WordNets
2.4.3 Relations editing
2.4.4 Locking synsets
3. Typical errors
Linguistic recommendations
How to write a synset?
Numbering senses
Eq_Relations, IL relations, ILI
Glossary of basic terms

1. Installation of Debvisdic

1.1 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
• a window will open with 3 packages - click on install new
• close all windows in Firefox (with File -> Quit) - DEBVisDic should appear as a new line in Firefox Tools
• Start Firefox again - click on DEBVisDic - an access box asking for login and password will appear - you fill it in, then you will see all the packages (languages) to which you have an access
• It should say installation is complete
• restart Firefox - close all windows with File -> Quit

1.2 Starting Debvisdic

• starting DEBVisDic for normal use: click on DEBVisDic in Tools, access box should appear, write your login and password.
• you will see long and narrow window DEBVisDic, there you click on Settings, a dialog box will appear in which you choose Preferences that allow you to select the individual WordNets you want to work with - using commands Add / Remove, e.g. English and Xhosa.
• Click OK and working windows for selected Wordnets will appear
• Now you can start working

1.3 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

2. Short overview

2.1. Interface description (main components)

windows for the individual WordNets

In each working window you will see the bookmarks:

• Preview - text view of a given synset
• Tree - H/H tree related to a given synset
• Rev(ersed) Tree
• Edit - main window for editing - an example how to write a new synset and link it to another one will be presented
• XML - a synset as it is written in Xml format
• queries - see section 2.2

2.2 Basic Search - basic queries

2.2.1 Query language

2.2.2 Advanced queries

2.3. Bookmarks -View, Tree, RevTree, XML

2.3.1 Inter- WordNet functions

2.4. Editing functions

2.4.1 Writing a new synset

2.4.2 Changing the existing synset

2.4.2.1 Inter- WordNet functions - linking to other WordNets

2.4.3 Relations editing

2.4.4 Locking synsets

3. Typical errors

Linguistic recommendations

How to write a synset?

Numbering senses

Eq_Relations, IL relations, ILI

Glossary of basic terms