Installation:

• If you have not yet done so, download and install WordNet.
• Download the LinguisticWatermark package and the Wordnet Interface
• Copy all the content of this zip file, which are:
  • commons-logging.jar
  • jwnl.jar
  • WordnetInterface.jar
  inside your working directory
• In the WordnetInterface folder, you will find file_properties.xml; you must modify this file to:
  • specify the path to the "dict" directory of your Wordnet installation (e.g. d:\Linguistic_Resources\WordNet\2.0\dict), this can be done by editing the value attribute of the xml tag, as in the following example:
    <param name="dictionary_path" value="D:\Linguistic_Resources\WordNet\2.0\dict" />
  • specify the version of wordnet you are using (1.6, 1.7.X, 2.0 only.  2.1 not supported yet, sorry :-) ).
  • the dictionary reader; under the property dictionary_element_factory, select:
    • net.didion.jwnl.princeton.data.PrincetonWN17FileDictionaryElementFactory if working with wordnet 2.0 or 1.7
    • net.didion.jwnl.princeton.data.PrincetonWN16FileDictionaryElementFactory if working with wordnet 1.6
• In file_properties.xml you must specify the path to the "dict" directory of your Wordnet installation (e.g. d:\Linguistic_Resources\WordNet\2.0\dict); this can be done by editing the value attribute of the xml tag:
• Set the LinguisticInterfaceJar property of Ontoling plugin.properties file to:
  LinguisticInterfaceJar=plugins/it.uniroma2.info.ai-nlp.ontoling/WordnetInterface.jar
  (you can find a precompiled copy of this file in the WordnetInterface folder, so you just need to move it to Ontoling root directory: it.uniroma2.info.ai-nlp.ontoling )

The Linguistic Watermark graphic configuration utility can be used for properly setting the WordNet Interface according to the version of WordNet available in your computer and on its position in your hard drive. Anyway, the instructions below refer to the xml Linguistic Watermark configuration file.

Below are represented the interface and a instances sections of the Linguistic Watermark configuration file (see Linguistic Watermark User Manual for details):

<interface id="WORDNET" path="plugins/it.uniroma2.info.ai-nlp.ontoling/WordnetInterface.jar" />

the interface section for WordNet needs no particular configuration (there is no property associated to the declaration of the WordNet Interface), while, in the instances sections

a single property (jwnl_properties) is necessary, pointing to the property file which is used by the JWNL to access a specific WordNet vocabulary.

This way, it is possible to prepare different properties files and access the proper one depending on the version of WordNet which is needed at the time.