WordNet Angular

Princeton WordNet Interface based on Angular.js and Rust, this is currently used to run three websites:

https://polylingwn.linguistic-lod.org/

http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu

https://en-word.net/

Installation

The system is compiled and built with Cargo it can be built as usual with

cargo +nightly build --release

The server is a single executable at target/release/wordnet-angular

Note: this project is dependent on Rocket and needs the nightly build of Rust, see https://rocket.rs/v0.4/guide/quickstart/ for more details

Usage

USAGE:
    wordnet-angular [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
        --reload     Reload the indexes from the sources
    -V, --version    Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -p <port>                         The port to start the server on
    -s <princeton|polylingual|en>     The site design to use
        --wn <wn31.xml>               The WordNet file in GWC LMF-XML format, e.g., http://john.mccr.ae/wn31.xml.
                                      Default is data/wn31.xml

Quick Start

To create an instance of http://en-word.net/ run the following commands

wget https://en-word.net/static/english-wordnet-2021.xml.gz
gunzip english-wordnet-2021.xml.gz
target/release/wordnet-angular --reload -s en --wn english-wordnet-2021.xml

If you get the following error then delete the file wordnet.db and try again

Failed to load WordNet: SQLite error: table synsets already exists