README.rdoc in wordnet-1.0.1 vs README.rdoc in wordnet-1.1.0

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@@ -1,24 +1,25 @@ = Ruby-WordNet -* http://deveiate.org/projects/Ruby-WordNet +* https://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-wordnet/ == Description This library is a Ruby interface to WordNet®[http://wordnet.princeton.edu/]. -WordNet® is an online lexical reference system whose design is inspired -by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English -nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each -representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link -the synonym sets. +WordNet® is an online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by +current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, +verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each +representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the +synonym sets. -This library uses WordNet-SQL[http://wnsql.sourceforge.net/], which is a -conversion of the lexicon flatfiles into a relational database format. You -can either install the 'wordnet-defaultdb' gem, which packages up the -SQLite3 version of WordNet-SQL, or install your own and point the lexicon -at it by passing -{Sequel connection parameters}[http://sequel.rubyforge.org/rdoc/files/doc/opening_databases_rdoc.html] +This library uses SqlUNET[http://sqlunet.sourceforge.net/], which is a +conversion of the WordNet (along with a number of other linguistic databases) +lexicon flatfiles into a relational database format. You can either install the +{wordnet-defaultdb}[https://rubygems.org/gems/wordnet-defaultdb] gem, which +packages up the SQLite3 version of SqlUNet, or install your own and point the +lexicon at it by passing {Sequel connection +parameters}[http://sequel.jeremyevans.net/rdoc/files/doc/opening_databases_rdoc.html] to the constructor. === Usage There are three major parts to this library: @@ -51,28 +52,28 @@ mapping: [WordNet::SumoTerm] {Suggested Upper Merged Ontology}[http://www.ontologyportal.org/] terms, with associations back to related Synsets. -This is only supported by a subset of the WordNetSQL databases, and there -is a fair amount of work left to be done before it's really functional. Drop -me a note if you're interested in working on this. +As mentioned above, SqlUNet has done an amazing job of linking up a number of +other useful linguistic lexicons via WordNet synsets. I plan on adding support +for at minimum VerbNet, FrameNet, and PropBank. == Requirements -* Ruby >= 1.9.3 -* Sequel >= 3.38.0 +* Ruby >= 2.3 +* Sequel >= 5.0 == Authors * Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org> == License -Copyright (c) 2002-2012, The FaerieMUD Consortium +Copyright (c) 2002-2017, Michael Granger All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: