On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 01:13:50PM -0500, Randee Tengi wrote: > As the person responsible for the distribution of WordNet, I am reporting > an error in your Web page description of the package. The incorrect > information is found on: > http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/text/wordnet.html > I am forwarding this to the package maintainer. He is responsible for the content that is shown on the web page.
> Part of the following description from your Web page is incorrect: > > WordNet is a lexical reference system based on Murray's Oxford English > Dictionary (1928). Word forms in WordNet are represented in their familiar > orthography; word meanings are represented by synonym sets (synset) - > lists of synonymous word forms that are interchangeable in some context. > Two kinds of relations are recognized: lexical and semantic. > > WordNet is NOT based on Murray's OED. I have no idea where that > information came from, but it is completely wrong. WordNet was developed > indpendent of any other dictionary. Various word lists were used to begin > the project - lists of currencies, countries, adjectives, etc., and has > grown from there into a full-fledged dictionary/thesaurus/reference of > it's own, covering about all the entries found in a good, desk-sized, > collegiate dictionary. > > Please remove the reference to the OED from your Web site and any other > Debian docuemntation. > > I also don't understand the name given to the package: wordnet 1.6-5. > The release is WordNet 1.6. We don't have any '-' suffixes. The next > release, if there is one, will either be WordNet 1.7, or WordNet 2. > Everything after the '-' corresponds to the version of the Debian package for the upstream version 1.6. This makes it possible to release multiple versions for a single upstream source. For example, when the maintainer corrects this, the version number will be 1.6-6. > ps - If possible, could you put in a link to our Web site? From there, > users can get a lot more information about WordNet, alternative > interfaces, our user group, etc. The URL is > http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ > Note for the package maintainer: if you include a URL in the description it will be automatically marked up when the web page is created. -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
