JWNL Wordnet 3.0 configuration and setup

[kyle wagner]

Just downloaded WordNet 3.0 and JWNL. Running on a mac os x 10.6, eclipse 3.6.2. I couldn't get this thing to work - kept getting the errors below.

The two things I did that fixed it (beyond setting dictionary_path correctly):
1. file_properties.xml needs to have this line changed from "1.7" to "3.0"

<version publisher="Princeton" number="3.0" language="en"/>

2.  WordNet/dict contains a bunch of files. Apparently, the ones called "index.xxx" need to be renamed to "xxx.exc".
So, index.noun => noun.exc
etc.

Hopefully that'll help someone else from having the same frustrations I went through getting this thing to work!

(error message below for reference)

net.didion.jwnl.JWNLException: Unable to install net.didion.jwnl.dictionary.FileBackedDictionary
at net.didion.jwnl.util.factory.Element.install(Element.java:34)
at net.didion.jwnl.JWNL.initialize(JWNL.java:169)
at nlp.experiments.WordNetTest.testJWNL(WordNetTest.java:106)
at nlp.experiments.WordNetTest.main(WordNetTest.java:17)
Caused by: net.didion.jwnl.JWNLException: The properties file must specify a dictionary path
at net.didion.jwnl.util.factory.AbstractValueParam.create(AbstractValueParam.java:34)
at net.didion.jwnl.dictionary.FileBackedDictionary.install(FileBackedDictionary.java:111)
at net.didion.jwnl.util.factory.Element.install(Element.java:32)
… 3 more
Caused by: net.didion.jwnl.JWNLException: Could not create a file manager of type class net.didion.jwnl.princeton.file.PrincetonRandomAccessDictionaryFile
at net.didion.jwnl.dictionary.file_manager.FileManagerImpl.create(FileManagerImpl.java:98)
at net.didion.jwnl.util.factory.AbstractValueParam.create(AbstractValueParam.java:32)
… 5 more
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /Users/me/Documents/eclipse/workspace/MachineLearning/resources/WordNet/dict/adv.exc (No such file or directory)
at java.io.RandomAccessFile.open(Native Method)
at java.io.RandomAccessFile.<init>(RandomAccessFile.java:216)
at net.didion.jwnl.princeton.file.PrincetonRandomAccessDictionaryFile.openFile(PrincetonRandomAccessDictionaryFile.java:76)
at net.didion.jwnl.dictionary.file.AbstractDictionaryFile.open(AbstractDictionaryFile.java:58)
at net.didion.jwnl.dictionary.file.DictionaryCatalog.open(DictionaryCatalog.java:45)
at net.didion.jwnl.dictionary.file.DictionaryCatalogSet.open(DictionaryCatalogSet.java:34)
at net.didion.jwnl.dictionary.file_manager.FileManagerImpl.<init>(FileManagerImpl.java:71)
at net.didion.jwnl.dictionary.file_manager.FileManagerImpl.create(FileManagerImpl.java:96)
… 6 more

[Harry Delugach]

Thanks! This fix is still needed as of Wordnet 3.1 with JWNL 1.4

[Seonho Kim]

Thank you very much. Your solution really saved me. I was almost give up the fxxing jwnl.

[Abreal]

I'm facing the same problem.
where can I find the file_properties.
need help
thanks

[Prakashkumar]

hello ..any one can help me…
i'm doing a project based on  semantic similarity between  documents. so i want decide to use this jwnl package  in my application. i need to check the sample code… but it's not working….
i thing the error happening for initialize()…in fileinputstream…..please help me

public class usage {

// private static final String USAGE1 = "java Examples <properties file>";
public static void main(String args) throws IOException, FileNotFoundException ,JWNLException{
IndexWord wordnet;
try
{
System.out.println("hello13");
String prop="C:\\jwnl\\jwnl14-rc2\\jwnl14-rc2\\config\\file_properties.xml";
        // FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("file_properties.xml");
         JWNL.initialize(new FileInputStream(prop));
//initialize();

wordnet = Dictionary.getInstance().getIndexWord(POS.VERB, "run");
Synset sense = wordnet.getSense(1);
    System.out.println(sense);
PointerTargetNodeList relatedList = PointerUtils.getInstance().getSynonyms(sense);
Iterator i = relatedList.iterator();
  while (i.hasNext()) {
   PointerTargetNode related = (PointerTargetNode) i.next();
  Synset s = related.getSynset();
  System.out.println(s);

  }
   //System.out.println("hello3");

}
catch (Exception ex) {

}
}

}