extjwnl_fiwn

This repository contains Java code to make extJWNL interoperate with FinnWordNet and the Finnish language.

Installation

You can add this Java library to your project by following the instructions on jitpack.io.

Usage

This library provides two classes, FiWNFileDictionaryElementFactory which is a tiny shim to make extJWNL able to use FinnWordNet's dictionary files and OmorfiMorphologicalProcessor, which is a extJWNL MorphologicalProcessor which will lemmatize Finnish word forms. The latter should only be used keeping in mind it may produce poor results due to morphological ambiguity, and thus in cases where words to be looked up occur in some context, finding a way to integrate a disambiguating morphological analyser such as FinnPOS or Finnish-dep-parser should be preferred.

An example of a working XML configuration (you'll need to change the path to FinnWordNet -- which occurs twice):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>  
<jwnl_properties language="en">  
        <version publisher="University of Helsinki" number="2.0"
                 path="file:/path/to/fiwn/data/dict/" language="fi"/>  
        <dictionary class="net.sf.extjwnl.dictionary.FileBackedDictionary">  
                <param name="morphological_processor" value="io.github.frankier.extjwnl_fiwn.OmorfiMorphologicalProcessor"/>
                <param name="dictionary_element_factory" value="io.github.frankier.extjwnl_fiwn.FiWNFileDictionaryElementFactory"/>
                <param name="file_manager" value="net.sf.extjwnl.dictionary.file_manager.FileManagerImpl">  
                        <param name="file_type" value="net.sf.extjwnl.princeton.file.PrincetonRandomAccessDictionaryFile">
                                <param name="encoding" value="UTF-8"/>
                        </param>
                        <param name="dictionary_path" value="file:/path/to/fiwn/data/dict/"/>  
                </param>  
        </dictionary>  
        <resource class="net.sf.extjwnl.princeton.PrincetonResource"/>
</jwnl_properties>