List Senser

Purpose

Finds the sense-relation between sets of words from a list. It is especially usefull for speeding up things if the words-sets are sorted by either the right or the left word while these words occur more than once. In this way one can utilize the cache-function in the (modified) Lesk-measure. It becomes extra usefull to precalculate the simmilarities if one needs the data more than once, as I did in my Semantic Gravity research (not to speak of combinations occurring more than once within a large corpus). On overall it can reduce the required proc-time by more than 50%. It requires WordNet Simmilarity lesk

The configfile is configlistsenser.pl

Synopsis

./listsenser.pl

[-c <corpus>] [-f <fromsubdir>] | [-fd <fromdir>] [-tc <tocorpus>] [-t <tosubdir>] | [-td <targetdir>] [-ff <combinedwordsfile>] [-tf <senselistfile>] [-e<totempdir>] | [-ed <tempdir>] [-ef <tempfile>] [-es <existingsensefile> (not implemented!)] [-dr] [-? = -h = -help = --help] [-v [<verboselvl>]]

-c: the corpus with which the combinedwordsfile is stored

-f: subdir below corpus where the combinedwordsfile can be found (defaults to combilist if none is specified and if it's not changed in the configfile)

-fd: full path to the combinedwordsfile

-tc: target-corpus. If none is set the source corpus is used

-t: the subdir relative to the corpusdir in which the list of sensed word- combinations should be stored. Note that this option is only possible if the corpus is given with the -c or -tc option (not the full path with the -td option)

-td: full path to the place where the list of sensed word-combinations should be stored

-ff: the name of the source word-combinations file

-tf: the name of the sensed (target) word-combinations file

-e: the temporary-subdir used for storing the temporary file needed for the db- creation

-ed: full path to the temp-dir

-ef: the temp-file (defaults to tempdb.tmp)

-es: the existing sense-file to use as an alternative source

-dr: dry-run. Nothing is written or deleted, only reading and reporting is done

-v: the level of verbosity, default verboselevel = 2, available levels: 0,1,2,3

-?: (and equivalents) prints help: the purpose and the synopsys

NOTE:

If no from and to-dirs are given the defaults in the config file are used

You can download (or look at the sources of) ListSenser [here]. To run it you will also need [the config file] and the [fiauimenre library]. You can also get the entire tool-package (containing the newest version of all fiauimenre tools and the library) [in one download]