Wordnet and meta edit

What do you want to do with them? I'll assume you want to have MetaEdit+ draw graphs of Wordnet data, to which you'll maybe add extra elements or information.

I imagine you'd write a program in your favourite language. It would interface with WordNet (see q5.2 answers 1 and 2 here) to read whatever data you want to load into MetaEdit+, then create graphs and objects in MetaEdit+ that correspond to that data. You can create the graphs and objects by outputting an XML file in MetaEdit+'s Model XML format and having MetaEdit+ import it. Alternatively, you can create each object individually with the MetaEdit+ API.

First though you need to get familiar with MetaEdit+ and creating graphical languages. Do the "Family Tree" evaluation tutorial to get used to MetaEdit+ and how to build a new graphical language. Take a look at the other example languages supplied with MetaEdit+ to give you some ideas.

Then sketch an example model of your Wordnet data, just with pencil and paper. For each element in your model, look what information it has (properties), and how it is connected to other elements (relationships). Based on this, you can decide on a set of object types, what properties they have, what relationship types there are, and which object types those relationship types can connect.

Create a graphical language in MetaEdit+, containing those object types etc. Draw some example models with that language to see if it works well with the kind of information you want to use it with. Having an example model will also give you an idea what kind of result you are aiming at, when you import the Wordnet data. You can export the example graph to XML with Graph | Export to | MetaEdit+ XML Models file....

See also more ways to integrate MetaEdit+ with other tools, in particular importing information from other tools into MetaEdit+.

Hope this helps,
Steve


Edited by stevek - 17.Jun.2011 at 15:33

@steve

Can the solution in your previous post can resolve the problem as I described?