VerbOcean extractor
VerbOcean is a semantic network of verbs created by Timothy Chklovski and Patrick Pantel at the University of Southern California. VerbOcean extractor reads simple text files of VerbOcean file format and converts the file content to a Topic Map. Wandora does not include VerbOcean files and you must download such file from VerbOcean's home page or generate a VerbOcean file of your own.
VerbOcean file format
VerbOcean file format is a text file format where each line contains a quartet with two verbs and a relation, and a strenght value. Below is a small fragment of VerbOcean file:
pursue [happens-before] abandon :: 11.262514 abandon [opposite-of] pursue :: 10.178111 abandon [happens-before] renew :: 10.151251 abandon [opposite-of] renew :: 9.658213
The file may also contain comments. Comment lines start with # character.
Using VerbOcean extractor
At the moment VerbOcean extractor is not available at File > Extract menu but you must use Tools > Tool Manager to place the extractor into the menu before usage.
- Select Tools > Tool Manager
- Select Extract in Tool type
- Click button New
- Locate VerbOcean Extractor (org.wandora.application.tools.extractors.VerbOceanExtractor)
- Click button OK. Tool creation dialog closes.
- Click button OK. Tool manager dialog closes.
Now the VerbOcean extractor tool is available at File > Extract menu. You can also use the extractor as a drag'n'drop extractor.
