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1. Browser Features
2. Downloading the browser
3. Getting started
The AWN Browser facilitates browsing and
searching of the WordNet, and viewing Arabic
translations of concepts.
1. Browser features
The main features of the AWN Browser are as
follows:
Browsing the WordNet – through a
searchable and navigable
tree representation of the Princeton
WordNet. Colour-coding of items in
the tree allows for easy identification of
those concepts that have already been
translated into Arabic, as well as those
that have been assigned to be
translated during the Arabic Wordnet
project. Selecting items from the tree
causes English synonyms and gloss to
be displayed, as well as Arabic
translations where they exist.
Searching for concepts in the
WordNet – possible using both English
and Arabic search terms. Arabic
searches may be carried out using
either words (entered with or without
diacritics) or roots. In all cases, the
searches return a list of synsets
containing the search term. Selecting a
synset from the returned list causes it to
be displayed in the tree, allowing
relationships with other concepts to
be viewed, as well as information about
the corresponding
English/Arabic synset.
Updating Arabic data – The AWN
Browser uses a locally-stored database
of Arabic data, but it provides facilities
to update this database automatically at
regular intervals with the latest data
from
the Barcelona server.
2. Downloading the
browser
Prerequisites
The AWN broswer is written in Java and so you
must have the Java Runtime Environment
(JRE) installed on your machine. The code has
been developed and tested using Java 5.0. If
you do not have the JRE installed on
your machine, then please click here to
download it.
Downloading and
running the AWN
Browser
Once you have the JRE installed on your
machine, please do the following
1. Download AWNBrowser.zip
2. Unzip AWNBrowser.zip. The contents of
the AWNBrowser directory should be as
follows:
AWNBrowser.jar
Readme.txt
runAWN.bat
runAWN.sh
wordnet (directory) – This directory
contains the database; its contents
should not be modified manually.
3. Start up the AWN Browser interface:
Windows users should double click
on runAWN.bat
Non-windows users should click on
runAWN.sh
3. Getting started
This section describes briefly how to carry out
browsing and searching within the interface. For
further help on these and other topics, please
open the help
browser within the AWN Browser interface by
choosing Help Topics from the Help menu.
Browsing the tree
The tree representation of the Wordnet is
located at the bottom left of the AWN Browser.
Clicking on
will expand the appropriate branch to reveal the
top-level concepts for nouns or verbs, as
follows:
Wordsensetree
-EnglishWordnetHierarchy
9CNouns
(c)abstraction
(c)act
(c)entitu
(c)event
c)group
(c)phenomenon
(c)possession
©psychological_feature
c)state
©Verbs
Each concept in the tree is accompanied by a
colour-coded icon to show the current status of
the concept in the Arabic Wordnet. Green-
coloured icons indicate that the concept has an
Arabic translation.
Double clicking on one of the concepts will
reveal if it has sub-concepts. If sub-concepts
exist, then the symbol will appear beside
the node.
A subsequent click on this symbol will reveal
the sub-concepts, as shown below, where the
enity concept node has been expanded:
Clicking on the name of a concept in the tree
will cause information about that concept to be
displayed on other parts of the interface,
including Arabic transations of the concept if
they are available.
Searching for concepts
Concepts in the WordNet may be searched for
in either English or Arabic.
For searches in English, the word
should be entered into the textbox
labelled English Word.
For searches in Arabic, it is possible to
enter either a word into a text box in the
row labelled Arabic Word or a root into
a text box in the row labelled Arabic
Root. On both rows, there are 2 text
boxes. If Arabic character keyboard
mappings are
known, then the word or root can be
entered into the box labelled Arabic
Input. Otherwise, the word or root can
be entered
using the Buckwalter transliteration
system into the box labelled Buckwalter
Input.
SearchBoxes
For both English and Arabic searches, the
default is to search for matching concepts
belonging to any part of speech. However, the
search may be constrained to a single part of
speech by choosing an alternative value from
the drop down menu labelled Part of Speech
In order to perform the search, the Find Senses
button on the appropriate side of the interface
should be clicked. If the search term is found in
any synsets, then they will be displayed in the
box below the search area. Each line displayed
in the box corresponds to a synset, with
synonyms separated by commas. Clicking over
a synset causes further information about it to
be displayed on other parts of the interface,
including its position in the tree (nouns and
verbs only), gloss and equivalent English or
Arabic synset.
NOTE:It can take a few seconds for information
to be displayed after a synset has been clicked
upon.
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