
FinnWordNet - the Finnish WordNet
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FinnWordNet
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FinnWordNet is a wordnet for Finnish. For more information about
FinnWordNet, please see the README file in the parent directory or

    http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2014052714

The rest of this README file describes the contents of this directory.


dict: FinnWordNet data files in the Princeton WordNet database format
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The directory 'dict' contains FinnWordNet data files in the Princeton
WordNet (PWN) database format:

    http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/man/wndb.5WN.html

The data can be used with the PWN 'wn' search tool:

    http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/man/wn.1WN.html

The FinnWordNet data can be searched by setting the environment
variable 'WNSEARCHDIR' to point to the 'dict' directory.

The FinnWordNet data causes a buffer overflow in the original version
of 'wn', but the version patched by Debian works:

    http://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/wordnet

'wn' searches Finnish words normalized using English morphological
rules; for example, a search of "alas" shows results for the word
"ala" in addition to "alas".


Bugs
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* Finnish verbs have a dummy verb frame (number 1) in order for the
  data to work with the 'wn' search tool.
