Asp Forum - Problems with test cases and other things with Ruby-WordNet

appleman

7/21/2007 3:11:00 PM

I tried to post this as a ticket to Ruby-WordNet trac as a ticket but
it kept rejecting it as "Possible Spam" so here it. (For those of you
having problems running convertdb.rb and core dumps - jump to the end)

Ubuntu 7.04
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i486-linux]
WordNet-3.0
------------------
After much heartache I was able to successfully install Ruby WordNet
but some of the tests fail at the end when running 'ruby test.rb'. I
am able to load up the library from Linguistics as well as separately
using require 'wordnet', but all commands bring back nil values. The
pre-packaged download does not let me run the test.rb at all as it
returns:

../tests/wntestcase.rb:57:in `require': no such file to load -- test/
unit/mock (LoadError)
from ./tests/wntestcase.rb:57
from test.rb:15:in `require'
from test.rb:15
from ./utils.rb:665:in `verboseOff'
from test.rb:14

I tried installing the Test::Unit::Mock library but didn't get very
far. I checked out the latest source code from SVN using:

svn checkout svn://deveiate.org/Ruby-WordNet/trunk

I was able to run the tests using this revision. After successfully
converting the WordNet data files - I ran ruby test.rb and received
the following errors:
-------------
0 patterns given on the command line
Required 3 files.
Loaded suite WordNet
Started
...FF...FF.E.F...FFFFFFFFF
Finished in 0.787878 seconds.

1) Failure:
test_familiarity_for_testwords_should_all_return_a_fixnum(LexiconTests)
[./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:92:in
`test_familiarity_for_testwords_should_all_return_a_fixnum'
./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:88:in `each'
./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:88:in
`test_familiarity_for_testwords_should_all_return_a_fixnum'
./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
<nil> expected to be an instance of
<Fixnum> but was
<NilClass>.

2) Failure:
test_grep_finds_compound_words(LexiconTests)
[./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:137:in `test_grep_finds_compound_words'
./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
Exception raised:
Class: <NoMethodError>
Message: <"undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass">
---Backtrace---
../lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:278:in `grep'
../tests/lexicon.tests.rb:138:in `test_grep_finds_compound_words'
../tests/lexicon.tests.rb:137:in `test_grep_finds_compound_words'
../tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
---------------

3) Failure:
test_lookup_synsets(LexiconTests)
[./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:156:in `test_lookup_synsets'
./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:151:in `each'
./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:151:in `test_lookup_synsets'
./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
<nil> expected to be an instance of
<WordNet::Synset> but was
<NilClass>.

4) Failure:
test_morphology_of_dictionary_word_should_return_root_word(LexiconTests)
[./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:104:in
`test_morphology_of_dictionary_word_should_return_root_word'
./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
<"angry"> expected but was
<nil>.

5) Error:
test_perl_tests(LexiconTests):
WordNet::LookupError: Failed lookup of synset '00466621%n':No such
synset
./lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:239:in `lookup_synsets_by_key'
./lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:238:in `each'
./lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:238:in `lookup_synsets_by_key'
./tests/linguawordnet.tests.rb:17:in `test_perl_tests'
./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'

6) Failure:
test_reverse_morphology_should_return_inverse(LexiconTests)
[./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:129:in
`test_reverse_morphology_should_return_inverse'
./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
<nil> expected to be =~
</^angr/>.

7) Failure:
test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_and_false_second_arg_should_return_holonyms_but_not_the_origin(SynsetTests)
[./tests/synset.tests.rb:208:in
`test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_and_false_second_arg_should_return_holonyms_but_not_the_origin'
./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
Exception raised:
Class: <NoMethodError>
Message: <"undefined method `traverse' for nil:NilClass">
---Backtrace---
../tests/synset.tests.rb:209:in
`test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_and_false_second_arg_should_return_holonyms_but_not_the_origin'
../tests/synset.tests.rb:208:in
`test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_and_false_second_arg_should_return_holonyms_but_not_the_origin'
../tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
---------------

8) Failure:
test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_should_return_appropriate_hyponyms(SynsetTests)
[./tests/synset.tests.rb:192:in
`test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_should_return_appropriate_hyponyms'
./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
Exception raised:
Class: <NoMethodError>
Message: <"undefined method `traverse' for nil:NilClass">
---Backtrace---
../tests/synset.tests.rb:193:in
`test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_should_return_appropriate_hyponyms'
../tests/synset.tests.rb:192:in
`test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_should_return_appropriate_hyponyms'
../tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
---------------

9) Failure:
test_part_of_speech_should_return_the_symbol_part_of_speech(SynsetTests)
[./tests/synset.tests.rb:243:in
`test_part_of_speech_should_return_the_symbol_part_of_speech'
./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
Exception raised:
Class: <NoMethodError>
Message: <"undefined method `part_of_speech' for nil:NilClass">
---Backtrace---
../tests/synset.tests.rb:243:in
`test_part_of_speech_should_return_the_symbol_part_of_speech'
../tests/synset.tests.rb:243:in
`test_part_of_speech_should_return_the_symbol_part_of_speech'
../tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
---------------

10) Failure:
test_pos_should_return_the_synsets_singlechar_part_of_speech(SynsetTests)
[./tests/synset.tests.rb:253:in
`test_pos_should_return_the_synsets_singlechar_part_of_speech'
./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
Exception raised:
Class: <NoMethodError>
Message: <"undefined method `pos' for nil:NilClass">
---Backtrace---
../tests/synset.tests.rb:253:in
`test_pos_should_return_the_synsets_singlechar_part_of_speech'
../tests/synset.tests.rb:253:in
`test_pos_should_return_the_synsets_singlechar_part_of_speech'
../tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
---------------

11) Failure:
test_relations(SynsetTests)
[./tests/synset.tests.rb:108:in `test_relations'
./tests/synset.tests.rb:105:in `each'
./tests/synset.tests.rb:105:in `test_relations'
./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
<#<WordNet::Synset:0xfb7945db0/1 (noun): "" ()>>
of type <WordNet::Synset>
expected to respond_to?<:instance_hyponyms>.

12) Failure:
test_synset_should_respond_to_traverse_method(SynsetTests)
[./tests/synset.tests.rb:138:in
`test_synset_should_respond_to_traverse_method'
./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
<nil>
of type <NilClass>
expected to respond_to?<:traverse>.

13) Failure:
test_traversal_break_after_3_should_include_three_sets_plus_origin(SynsetTests)
[./tests/synset.tests.rb:225:in
`test_traversal_break_after_3_should_include_three_sets_plus_origin'
./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
Exception raised:
Class: <NoMethodError>
Message: <"undefined method `traverse' for nil:NilClass">
---Backtrace---
../tests/synset.tests.rb:226:in
`test_traversal_break_after_3_should_include_three_sets_plus_origin'
../tests/synset.tests.rb:225:in
`test_traversal_break_after_3_should_include_three_sets_plus_origin'
../tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
---------------

14) Failure:
test_traversal_with_false_second_arg_should_not_include_origin(SynsetTests)
[./tests/synset.tests.rb:172:in
`test_traversal_with_false_second_arg_should_not_include_origin'
./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
Exception raised:
Class: <NoMethodError>
Message: <"undefined method `traverse' for nil:NilClass">
---Backtrace---
../tests/synset.tests.rb:173:in
`test_traversal_with_false_second_arg_should_not_include_origin'
../tests/synset.tests.rb:172:in
`test_traversal_with_false_second_arg_should_not_include_origin'
../tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
---------------

15) Failure:
test_traversal_with_true_second_arg_should_include_origin(SynsetTests)
[./tests/synset.tests.rb:149:in
`test_traversal_with_true_second_arg_should_include_origin'
./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
Exception raised:
Class: <NoMethodError>
Message: <"undefined method `traverse' for nil:NilClass">
---Backtrace---
../tests/synset.tests.rb:150:in
`test_traversal_with_true_second_arg_should_include_origin'
../tests/synset.tests.rb:149:in
`test_traversal_with_true_second_arg_should_include_origin'
../tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
---------------

25 tests, 116 assertions, 14 failures, 1 errors
---------------

sudo ruby install.rb appears to work - but when using the library in a
ruby program nil values are returned.

sudo irb

require 'wordnet'
lex = WordNet::Lexicon::new
lex.lookup_synsets("shoe", WordNet::Noun)
=> nil

I'm not sure what I've done wrong up to this point. Hopefully the
information I've provided can show it's something wrong on my end.

For those of you looking for the instructions to get you to the point
where you can run the installation tests, I've provided the KEY steps
here for installation on Ubuntu 7.04:

#Download Berkeley DB from Oracle (MUST BE 4.4 or earlier!)
wget http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.4... #untar
and install per INSTALL file instructions

#Get the ruby bindings for BDB (MUST BE VERSION 0.6.0 - I had core
dumps with using any other binding during the convertdb command)
wget ftp://moulon.inra.fr/pub/ruby/bdb-0....

#when compiling the bindings point to the proper headers
ruby extconf.rb --with-db-include=/home/johndoe/db-4.4.20/build_unix
make
sudo make install

svn checkout svn://deveiate.org/Ruby-WordNet/trunk
ruby convertdb.rb /home/johndoe/WordNet-3.0/dict/

Any information or help in getting the test and the wordnet library to
work - would be greatly appreciated. Perhaps a brave soul can make a
gem out of it...

Henry

10 Answers

hemant

7/22/2007 3:36:00 AM

On 7/21/07, H H <appleman@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to post this as a ticket to Ruby-WordNet trac as a ticket but
> it kept rejecting it as "Possible Spam" so here it. (For those of you
> having problems running convertdb.rb and core dumps - jump to the end)
>
> Ubuntu 7.04
> ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i486-linux]
> WordNet-3.0
> ------------------
> After much heartache I was able to successfully install Ruby WordNet
> but some of the tests fail at the end when running 'ruby test.rb'. I
> am able to load up the library from Linguistics as well as separately
> using require 'wordnet', but all commands bring back nil values. The
> pre-packaged download does not let me run the test.rb at all as it
> returns:
>
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:57:in `require': no such file to load -- test/
> unit/mock (LoadError)
> from ./tests/wntestcase.rb:57
> from test.rb:15:in `require'
> from test.rb:15
> from ./utils.rb:665:in `verboseOff'
> from test.rb:14
>
> I tried installing the Test::Unit::Mock library but didn't get very
> far. I checked out the latest source code from SVN using:
>
> svn checkout svn://deveiate.org/Ruby-WordNet/trunk
>
> I was able to run the tests using this revision. After successfully
> converting the WordNet data files - I ran ruby test.rb and received
> the following errors:
> -------------
> 0 patterns given on the command line
> Required 3 files.
> Loaded suite WordNet
> Started
> ..FF...FF.E.F...FFFFFFFFF
> Finished in 0.787878 seconds.
>
> 1) Failure:
> test_familiarity_for_testwords_should_all_return_a_fixnum(LexiconTests)
> [./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:92:in
> `test_familiarity_for_testwords_should_all_return_a_fixnum'
> ./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:88:in `each'
> ./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:88:in
> `test_familiarity_for_testwords_should_all_return_a_fixnum'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> <nil> expected to be an instance of
> <Fixnum> but was
> <NilClass>.
>
> 2) Failure:
> test_grep_finds_compound_words(LexiconTests)
> [./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:137:in `test_grep_finds_compound_words'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> Exception raised:
> Class: <NoMethodError>
> Message: <"undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass">
> ---Backtrace---
> ./lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:278:in `grep'
> ./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:138:in `test_grep_finds_compound_words'
> ./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:137:in `test_grep_finds_compound_words'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
> ---------------
>
> 3) Failure:
> test_lookup_synsets(LexiconTests)
> [./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:156:in `test_lookup_synsets'
> ./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:151:in `each'
> ./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:151:in `test_lookup_synsets'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> <nil> expected to be an instance of
> <WordNet::Synset> but was
> <NilClass>.
>
> 4) Failure:
> test_morphology_of_dictionary_word_should_return_root_word(LexiconTests)
> [./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:104:in
> `test_morphology_of_dictionary_word_should_return_root_word'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> <"angry"> expected but was
> <nil>.
>
> 5) Error:
> test_perl_tests(LexiconTests):
> WordNet::LookupError: Failed lookup of synset '00466621%n':No such
> synset
> ./lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:239:in `lookup_synsets_by_key'
> ./lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:238:in `each'
> ./lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:238:in `lookup_synsets_by_key'
> ./tests/linguawordnet.tests.rb:17:in `test_perl_tests'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
>
> 6) Failure:
> test_reverse_morphology_should_return_inverse(LexiconTests)
> [./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:129:in
> `test_reverse_morphology_should_return_inverse'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> <nil> expected to be =~
> </^angr/>.
>
> 7) Failure:
> test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_and_false_second_arg_should_return_holonyms_but_not_the_origin(SynsetTests)
> [./tests/synset.tests.rb:208:in
> `test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_and_false_second_arg_should_return_holonyms_but_not_the_origin'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> Exception raised:
> Class: <NoMethodError>
> Message: <"undefined method `traverse' for nil:NilClass">
> ---Backtrace---
> ./tests/synset.tests.rb:209:in
> `test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_and_false_second_arg_should_return_holonyms_but_not_the_origin'
> ./tests/synset.tests.rb:208:in
> `test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_and_false_second_arg_should_return_holonyms_but_not_the_origin'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
> ---------------
>
> 8) Failure:
> test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_should_return_appropriate_hyponyms(SynsetTests)
> [./tests/synset.tests.rb:192:in
> `test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_should_return_appropriate_hyponyms'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> Exception raised:
> Class: <NoMethodError>
> Message: <"undefined method `traverse' for nil:NilClass">
> ---Backtrace---
> ./tests/synset.tests.rb:193:in
> `test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_should_return_appropriate_hyponyms'
> ./tests/synset.tests.rb:192:in
> `test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_should_return_appropriate_hyponyms'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
> ---------------
>
> 9) Failure:
> test_part_of_speech_should_return_the_symbol_part_of_speech(SynsetTests)
> [./tests/synset.tests.rb:243:in
> `test_part_of_speech_should_return_the_symbol_part_of_speech'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> Exception raised:
> Class: <NoMethodError>
> Message: <"undefined method `part_of_speech' for nil:NilClass">
> ---Backtrace---
> ./tests/synset.tests.rb:243:in
> `test_part_of_speech_should_return_the_symbol_part_of_speech'
> ./tests/synset.tests.rb:243:in
> `test_part_of_speech_should_return_the_symbol_part_of_speech'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
> ---------------
>
> 10) Failure:
> test_pos_should_return_the_synsets_singlechar_part_of_speech(SynsetTests)
> [./tests/synset.tests.rb:253:in
> `test_pos_should_return_the_synsets_singlechar_part_of_speech'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> Exception raised:
> Class: <NoMethodError>
> Message: <"undefined method `pos' for nil:NilClass">
> ---Backtrace---
> ./tests/synset.tests.rb:253:in
> `test_pos_should_return_the_synsets_singlechar_part_of_speech'
> ./tests/synset.tests.rb:253:in
> `test_pos_should_return_the_synsets_singlechar_part_of_speech'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
> ---------------
>
> 11) Failure:
> test_relations(SynsetTests)
> [./tests/synset.tests.rb:108:in `test_relations'
> ./tests/synset.tests.rb:105:in `each'
> ./tests/synset.tests.rb:105:in `test_relations'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> <#<WordNet::Synset:0xfb7945db0/1 (noun): "" ()>>
> of type <WordNet::Synset>
> expected to respond_to?<:instance_hyponyms>.
>
> 12) Failure:
> test_synset_should_respond_to_traverse_method(SynsetTests)
> [./tests/synset.tests.rb:138:in
> `test_synset_should_respond_to_traverse_method'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> <nil>
> of type <NilClass>
> expected to respond_to?<:traverse>.
>
> 13) Failure:
> test_traversal_break_after_3_should_include_three_sets_plus_origin(SynsetTests)
> [./tests/synset.tests.rb:225:in
> `test_traversal_break_after_3_should_include_three_sets_plus_origin'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> Exception raised:
> Class: <NoMethodError>
> Message: <"undefined method `traverse' for nil:NilClass">
> ---Backtrace---
> ./tests/synset.tests.rb:226:in
> `test_traversal_break_after_3_should_include_three_sets_plus_origin'
> ./tests/synset.tests.rb:225:in
> `test_traversal_break_after_3_should_include_three_sets_plus_origin'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
> ---------------
>
> 14) Failure:
> test_traversal_with_false_second_arg_should_not_include_origin(SynsetTests)
> [./tests/synset.tests.rb:172:in
> `test_traversal_with_false_second_arg_should_not_include_origin'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> Exception raised:
> Class: <NoMethodError>
> Message: <"undefined method `traverse' for nil:NilClass">
> ---Backtrace---
> ./tests/synset.tests.rb:173:in
> `test_traversal_with_false_second_arg_should_not_include_origin'
> ./tests/synset.tests.rb:172:in
> `test_traversal_with_false_second_arg_should_not_include_origin'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
> ---------------
>
> 15) Failure:
> test_traversal_with_true_second_arg_should_include_origin(SynsetTests)
> [./tests/synset.tests.rb:149:in
> `test_traversal_with_true_second_arg_should_include_origin'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> Exception raised:
> Class: <NoMethodError>
> Message: <"undefined method `traverse' for nil:NilClass">
> ---Backtrace---
> ./tests/synset.tests.rb:150:in
> `test_traversal_with_true_second_arg_should_include_origin'
> ./tests/synset.tests.rb:149:in
> `test_traversal_with_true_second_arg_should_include_origin'
> ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
> ---------------
>
> 25 tests, 116 assertions, 14 failures, 1 errors
> ---------------
>
> sudo ruby install.rb appears to work - but when using the library in a
> ruby program nil values are returned.
>
> sudo irb
>
> require 'wordnet'
> lex = WordNet::Lexicon::new
> lex.lookup_synsets("shoe", WordNet::Noun)
> => nil
>
> I'm not sure what I've done wrong up to this point. Hopefully the
> information I've provided can show it's something wrong on my end.
>
> For those of you looking for the instructions to get you to the point
> where you can run the installation tests, I've provided the KEY steps
> here for installation on Ubuntu 7.04:
>
> #Download Berkeley DB from Oracle (MUST BE 4.4 or earlier!)
> wget http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.4... #untar
> and install per INSTALL file instructions
>
> #Get the ruby bindings for BDB (MUST BE VERSION 0.6.0 - I had core
> dumps with using any other binding during the convertdb command)
> wget ftp://moulon.inra.fr/pub/ruby/bdb-0....
>
> #when compiling the bindings point to the proper headers
> ruby extconf.rb --with-db-include=/home/johndoe/db-4.4.20/build_unix
> make
> sudo make install
>
> svn checkout svn://deveiate.org/Ruby-WordNet/trunk
> ruby convertdb.rb /home/johndoe/WordNet-3.0/dict/
>
> Any information or help in getting the test and the wordnet library to
> work - would be greatly appreciated. Perhaps a brave soul can make a
> gem out of it...
>

Henry,

So far my experience with Ruby bindings for wordnet is, its stinking
piece of shit. Its about time someone took ownership of this project
and do something about it. I know I am not helping you much, but NLP
is the one thing that makes me jealous of pythonists.

hemant

7/22/2007 3:38:00 AM

On 7/22/07, hemant <gethemant@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/21/07, H H <appleman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I tried to post this as a ticket to Ruby-WordNet trac as a ticket but
> > it kept rejecting it as "Possible Spam" so here it. (For those of you
> > having problems running convertdb.rb and core dumps - jump to the end)
> >
> > Ubuntu 7.04
> > ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i486-linux]
> > WordNet-3.0
> > ------------------
> > After much heartache I was able to successfully install Ruby WordNet
> > but some of the tests fail at the end when running 'ruby test.rb'. I
> > am able to load up the library from Linguistics as well as separately
> > using require 'wordnet', but all commands bring back nil values. The
> > pre-packaged download does not let me run the test.rb at all as it
> > returns:
> >
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:57:in `require': no such file to load -- test/
> > unit/mock (LoadError)
> > from ./tests/wntestcase.rb:57
> > from test.rb:15:in `require'
> > from test.rb:15
> > from ./utils.rb:665:in `verboseOff'
> > from test.rb:14
> >
> > I tried installing the Test::Unit::Mock library but didn't get very
> > far. I checked out the latest source code from SVN using:
> >
> > svn checkout svn://deveiate.org/Ruby-WordNet/trunk
> >
> > I was able to run the tests using this revision. After successfully
> > converting the WordNet data files - I ran ruby test.rb and received
> > the following errors:
> > -------------
> > 0 patterns given on the command line
> > Required 3 files.
> > Loaded suite WordNet
> > Started
> > ..FF...FF.E.F...FFFFFFFFF
> > Finished in 0.787878 seconds.
> >
> > 1) Failure:
> > test_familiarity_for_testwords_should_all_return_a_fixnum(LexiconTests)
> > [./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:92:in
> > `test_familiarity_for_testwords_should_all_return_a_fixnum'
> > ./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:88:in `each'
> > ./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:88:in
> > `test_familiarity_for_testwords_should_all_return_a_fixnum'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> > <nil> expected to be an instance of
> > <Fixnum> but was
> > <NilClass>.
> >
> > 2) Failure:
> > test_grep_finds_compound_words(LexiconTests)
> > [./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:137:in `test_grep_finds_compound_words'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> > Exception raised:
> > Class: <NoMethodError>
> > Message: <"undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass">
> > ---Backtrace---
> > ./lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:278:in `grep'
> > ./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:138:in `test_grep_finds_compound_words'
> > ./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:137:in `test_grep_finds_compound_words'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
> > ---------------
> >
> > 3) Failure:
> > test_lookup_synsets(LexiconTests)
> > [./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:156:in `test_lookup_synsets'
> > ./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:151:in `each'
> > ./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:151:in `test_lookup_synsets'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> > <nil> expected to be an instance of
> > <WordNet::Synset> but was
> > <NilClass>.
> >
> > 4) Failure:
> > test_morphology_of_dictionary_word_should_return_root_word(LexiconTests)
> > [./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:104:in
> > `test_morphology_of_dictionary_word_should_return_root_word'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> > <"angry"> expected but was
> > <nil>.
> >
> > 5) Error:
> > test_perl_tests(LexiconTests):
> > WordNet::LookupError: Failed lookup of synset '00466621%n':No such
> > synset
> > ./lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:239:in `lookup_synsets_by_key'
> > ./lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:238:in `each'
> > ./lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb:238:in `lookup_synsets_by_key'
> > ./tests/linguawordnet.tests.rb:17:in `test_perl_tests'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
> >
> > 6) Failure:
> > test_reverse_morphology_should_return_inverse(LexiconTests)
> > [./tests/lexicon.tests.rb:129:in
> > `test_reverse_morphology_should_return_inverse'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> > <nil> expected to be =~
> > </^angr/>.
> >
> > 7) Failure:
> > test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_and_false_second_arg_should_return_holonyms_but_not_the_origin(SynsetTests)
> > [./tests/synset.tests.rb:208:in
> > `test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_and_false_second_arg_should_return_holonyms_but_not_the_origin'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> > Exception raised:
> > Class: <NoMethodError>
> > Message: <"undefined method `traverse' for nil:NilClass">
> > ---Backtrace---
> > ./tests/synset.tests.rb:209:in
> > `test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_and_false_second_arg_should_return_holonyms_but_not_the_origin'
> > ./tests/synset.tests.rb:208:in
> > `test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_and_false_second_arg_should_return_holonyms_but_not_the_origin'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
> > ---------------
> >
> > 8) Failure:
> > test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_should_return_appropriate_hyponyms(SynsetTests)
> > [./tests/synset.tests.rb:192:in
> > `test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_should_return_appropriate_hyponyms'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> > Exception raised:
> > Class: <NoMethodError>
> > Message: <"undefined method `traverse' for nil:NilClass">
> > ---Backtrace---
> > ./tests/synset.tests.rb:193:in
> > `test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_should_return_appropriate_hyponyms'
> > ./tests/synset.tests.rb:192:in
> > `test_hyponym_traversal_with_no_block_should_return_appropriate_hyponyms'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
> > ---------------
> >
> > 9) Failure:
> > test_part_of_speech_should_return_the_symbol_part_of_speech(SynsetTests)
> > [./tests/synset.tests.rb:243:in
> > `test_part_of_speech_should_return_the_symbol_part_of_speech'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> > Exception raised:
> > Class: <NoMethodError>
> > Message: <"undefined method `part_of_speech' for nil:NilClass">
> > ---Backtrace---
> > ./tests/synset.tests.rb:243:in
> > `test_part_of_speech_should_return_the_symbol_part_of_speech'
> > ./tests/synset.tests.rb:243:in
> > `test_part_of_speech_should_return_the_symbol_part_of_speech'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
> > ---------------
> >
> > 10) Failure:
> > test_pos_should_return_the_synsets_singlechar_part_of_speech(SynsetTests)
> > [./tests/synset.tests.rb:253:in
> > `test_pos_should_return_the_synsets_singlechar_part_of_speech'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> > Exception raised:
> > Class: <NoMethodError>
> > Message: <"undefined method `pos' for nil:NilClass">
> > ---Backtrace---
> > ./tests/synset.tests.rb:253:in
> > `test_pos_should_return_the_synsets_singlechar_part_of_speech'
> > ./tests/synset.tests.rb:253:in
> > `test_pos_should_return_the_synsets_singlechar_part_of_speech'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
> > ---------------
> >
> > 11) Failure:
> > test_relations(SynsetTests)
> > [./tests/synset.tests.rb:108:in `test_relations'
> > ./tests/synset.tests.rb:105:in `each'
> > ./tests/synset.tests.rb:105:in `test_relations'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> > <#<WordNet::Synset:0xfb7945db0/1 (noun): "" ()>>
> > of type <WordNet::Synset>
> > expected to respond_to?<:instance_hyponyms>.
> >
> > 12) Failure:
> > test_synset_should_respond_to_traverse_method(SynsetTests)
> > [./tests/synset.tests.rb:138:in
> > `test_synset_should_respond_to_traverse_method'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> > <nil>
> > of type <NilClass>
> > expected to respond_to?<:traverse>.
> >
> > 13) Failure:
> > test_traversal_break_after_3_should_include_three_sets_plus_origin(SynsetTests)
> > [./tests/synset.tests.rb:225:in
> > `test_traversal_break_after_3_should_include_three_sets_plus_origin'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> > Exception raised:
> > Class: <NoMethodError>
> > Message: <"undefined method `traverse' for nil:NilClass">
> > ---Backtrace---
> > ./tests/synset.tests.rb:226:in
> > `test_traversal_break_after_3_should_include_three_sets_plus_origin'
> > ./tests/synset.tests.rb:225:in
> > `test_traversal_break_after_3_should_include_three_sets_plus_origin'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
> > ---------------
> >
> > 14) Failure:
> > test_traversal_with_false_second_arg_should_not_include_origin(SynsetTests)
> > [./tests/synset.tests.rb:172:in
> > `test_traversal_with_false_second_arg_should_not_include_origin'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> > Exception raised:
> > Class: <NoMethodError>
> > Message: <"undefined method `traverse' for nil:NilClass">
> > ---Backtrace---
> > ./tests/synset.tests.rb:173:in
> > `test_traversal_with_false_second_arg_should_not_include_origin'
> > ./tests/synset.tests.rb:172:in
> > `test_traversal_with_false_second_arg_should_not_include_origin'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
> > ---------------
> >
> > 15) Failure:
> > test_traversal_with_true_second_arg_should_include_origin(SynsetTests)
> > [./tests/synset.tests.rb:149:in
> > `test_traversal_with_true_second_arg_should_include_origin'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run']:
> > Exception raised:
> > Class: <NoMethodError>
> > Message: <"undefined method `traverse' for nil:NilClass">
> > ---Backtrace---
> > ./tests/synset.tests.rb:150:in
> > `test_traversal_with_true_second_arg_should_include_origin'
> > ./tests/synset.tests.rb:149:in
> > `test_traversal_with_true_second_arg_should_include_origin'
> > ./tests/wntestcase.rb:141:in `run'
> > ---------------
> >
> > 25 tests, 116 assertions, 14 failures, 1 errors
> > ---------------
> >
> > sudo ruby install.rb appears to work - but when using the library in a
> > ruby program nil values are returned.
> >
> > sudo irb
> >
> > require 'wordnet'
> > lex = WordNet::Lexicon::new
> > lex.lookup_synsets("shoe", WordNet::Noun)
> > => nil
> >
> > I'm not sure what I've done wrong up to this point. Hopefully the
> > information I've provided can show it's something wrong on my end.
> >
> > For those of you looking for the instructions to get you to the point
> > where you can run the installation tests, I've provided the KEY steps
> > here for installation on Ubuntu 7.04:
> >
> > #Download Berkeley DB from Oracle (MUST BE 4.4 or earlier!)
> > wget http://download.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.4... #untar
> > and install per INSTALL file instructions
> >
> > #Get the ruby bindings for BDB (MUST BE VERSION 0.6.0 - I had core
> > dumps with using any other binding during the convertdb command)
> > wget ftp://moulon.inra.fr/pub/ruby/bdb-0....
> >
> > #when compiling the bindings point to the proper headers
> > ruby extconf.rb --with-db-include=/home/johndoe/db-4.4.20/build_unix
> > make
> > sudo make install
> >
> > svn checkout svn://deveiate.org/Ruby-WordNet/trunk
> > ruby convertdb.rb /home/johndoe/WordNet-3.0/dict/
> >
> > Any information or help in getting the test and the wordnet library to
> > work - would be greatly appreciated. Perhaps a brave soul can make a
> > gem out of it...
> >
>
> Henry,
>
> So far my experience with Ruby bindings for wordnet is, its stinking
> piece of shit. Its about time someone took ownership of this project
> and do something about it. I know I am not helping you much, but NLP
> is the one thing that makes me jealous of pythonists.
>

Not to mention link parser support in linguistic library,which doesn't
work at all.

Michael Granger

7/25/2007 12:08:00 AM

On Jul 21, 2007, at 8:15 AM, H H wrote:

> I tried to post this as a ticket to Ruby-WordNet trac as a ticket but
> it kept rejecting it as "Possible Spam" so here it. (For those of you
> having problems running convertdb.rb and core dumps - jump to the end)

First of all, I apologize for the "Possible Spam" thing. I was getting
hammered with people rewriting all my trac wiki pages with links to spam
sites, so I'm trying out the new trac anti-spam plugin. Apparently it
needs
some tuning.

And also: thanks for taking the time to not only bring this up, but
in a way
that's useful and can be used to improve the library for others.

> After much heartache I was able to successfully install Ruby WordNet
> but some of the tests fail at the end when running 'ruby test.rb'.

I'm sorry you had to spend so much time getting things to run. I made
the
initial choice to use a BDB database to make access to the dictionaries
faster, to allow on-the-fly modification of terms, and also because
there
wasn't a usable C interface to the WordNet dictionaries at the time.
I've
since wondered if it would have been less fragile, albeit much
slower, to
store the parsed dictionaries in PStores or something.

> I am able to load up the library from Linguistics as well as
> separately using require 'wordnet', but all commands bring back nil
> values. The pre-packaged download does not let me run the test.rb at
> all as it returns:

I've removed the packaged-up source, as it's undergone quite a lot of
bitrot. I'll be posting a new tarball from SVN today or tomorrow.

> I checked out the latest source code from SVN using:
>
> svn checkout svn://deveiate.org/Ruby-WordNet/trunk
>
> I was able to run the tests using this revision. After successfully
> converting the WordNet data files - I ran ruby test.rb and received
> the following errors:
> [snip]

I'm not sure where those errors are coming from. Using bdb 6.0 and
BerkeleyDB 4.5, I get:

$ ./convertdb.rb
WordNet Lexicon Converter
This program will convert WordNet data files into databases
used by Ruby-WordNet. This will not affect existing WordNet files,
but will require up to 40Mb of disk space.
Continue? [y]:
>>> Warning: Existing data in the Ruby-WordNet databases
will be overwritten.
Continue? [n]: y
Where can I find the WordNet data files?
Data directory [/usr/local/WordNet-2.1/dict]: /usr/local/WordNet-3.0/
dict
Converting index files...

index.noun...........................................................
..committing...done (117798 entries, 0 errors).
index.verb........committing...done (11529 entries, 0 errors).
index.adj.............committing...done (21479 entries, 0 errors).
index.adv.....committing...done (4481 entries, 0 errors).
Checkpointing DB and cleaning logs...done.
Converting morph files...
verb.exc....committing...done (2401 entries, 0 errors).
adv.exc...committing...done (7 entries, 0 errors).
adj.exc...committing...done (1490 entries, 0 errors).
cousin.exc...missing: skipped
noun.exc....committing...done (2054 entries, 0 errors).
Checkpointing DB and cleaning logs...done.
Converting data files...
data.adj............committing...done (18156 entries, 0 errors).
data.adv....committing...done (3621 entries, 0 errors).
data.verb.........committing...done (13767 entries, 0 errors).
data.noun............................................committing
...done (82115 entries, 0 errors).
Checkpointing DB and cleaning logs...done.
done.

$ ./test.rb
0 patterns given on the command line
Required 3 files.
Loaded suite WordNet
Started
.........................
Finished in 6.089183 seconds.

25 tests, 267 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors

Obviously this doesn't help with your problem, but it does seem to
indicate
that it's related to some difference in our environments rather than
something endemic to the code.

> Any information or help in getting the test and the wordnet library to
> work - would be greatly appreciated.

I'd be happy to help you figure out how to make it work for you,
which will
help me write better troubleshooting and instructions.

> Perhaps a brave soul can make a gem out of it...

Since it relies rather heavily on the bdb library, a gem is somewhat
useless
without a corresponding BDB gem on which it can depend. I suppose I
could
make one that just had 'bdb' in the 'requirements', but I'd think
that would
be misleading and prone to causing more frustration.

Alternatively, it could be written differently, removing its
dependency on
BDB, but I'm afraid I'm not up to that task at the moment, as it's
working
fine for what I need it to do. I'd welcome patches, though.

--
Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
Rubymage, Architect, Believer
The FaerieMUD Consortium <http://www.FaerieMU...
ruby -e "p 12383406064495388618631689469409153107.to_s(36).tr('z',' ')"

Michael Granger

7/25/2007 1:54:00 AM

On Jul 21, 2007, at 8:37 PM, hemant wrote:

>> So far my experience with Ruby bindings for wordnet is, its stinking
>> piece of shit. Its about time someone took ownership of this project
>> and do something about it. I know I am not helping you much, but NLP
>> is the one thing that makes me jealous of pythonists.

Wow, okay. Care to elaborate on your experience?

As for taking ownership of the project -- you're welcome to write
your own
library which is not a "stinking piece of shit" and take ownership of
that.
My giving the source I wrote for myself for my own projects away does
not
give you some kind of guarantee that it'll exactly suit your needs. I
don't
have any record of your suggestions, patches, or problem reports,
which is
the only way I'd know that it wasn't working for you. I'm happy to
help try
to diagnose problems, but if you're just sitting quietly fuming to
yourself,
there isn't much I can do for you.

I'm sorry you so strongly disapprove of my code. I, too, am jealous
of all
the great NLP tools that Python has (especially nltk), but I'm at least
trying to change that instead of sulking in a corner hurling insults at
people that are giving you stuff for nothing.

> Not to mention link parser support in linguistic library,which doesn't
> work at all.

It certainly works for me, and I again haven't had any reports from
you to
the contrary. My email address is in the README of every one of my
projects.

$ irb
Requiring 'linguistics' module...
Calling Linguistics::use( :en )
irb(main):001:0>
Linguistics::EN.has_link_parser?
=> true
irb(main):002:0> "Get the leftmost ball from the rack.".sentence.verb
=> "get"
irb(main):003:0> "Get the leftmost ball from the rack.".sentence.subject
=> nil
irb(main):004:0> "Get the leftmost ball from the rack.".sentence.object
=> "ball"
irb(main):005:0> puts "Get the leftmost ball from the
rack.".sentence.diagram

+-------------------------Xp-------------------------+
| +--------------MVp-------------+ |
| +-----------Os-----------+ | |
| | +---------Ds--------+ +----Js---+ |
+---Wi--+ | +-----A----+ | +--Ds-+ |
| | | | | | | | |
LEFT-WALL get.v the leftmost[?].a ball.n from the rack.n .

=> nil

--
Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
Rubymage, Architect, Believer
The FaerieMUD Consortium <http://www.FaerieMU...
ruby -e "p 12383406064495388618631689469409153107.to_s(36).tr('z',' ')"

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

7/25/2007 2:27:00 AM

Michael Granger wrote:
> --
> Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
> Rubymage, Architect, Believer
> The FaerieMUD Consortium <http://www.FaerieMU...
> ruby -e "p 12383406064495388618631689469409153107.to_s(36).tr('z',' ')"

Ah ... so MUES and FaerieMUD are alive and well? I stumbled across some
old links to them on ThoughtForge and figured they had vanished. Glad to
hear they are still around.

Michael Granger

7/25/2007 3:50:00 AM

On Jul 24, 2007, at 7:27 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> Ah ... so MUES and FaerieMUD are alive and well? I stumbled across
> some
> old links to them on ThoughtForge and figured they had vanished.
> Glad to
> hear they are still around.

They are. I don't get as much time to work on them as I'd like, but
at least I get paid to write Ruby code all day. :)

--
Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
Rubymage, Architect, Believer
The FaerieMUD Consortium <http://www.faeriemu...

hemant

7/25/2007 12:02:00 PM

On 7/25/07, Michael Granger <ged@faeriemud.org> wrote:
> On Jul 21, 2007, at 8:37 PM, hemant wrote:
>
> >> So far my experience with Ruby bindings for wordnet is, its stinking
> >> piece of shit. Its about time someone took ownership of this project
> >> and do something about it. I know I am not helping you much, but NLP
> >> is the one thing that makes me jealous of pythonists.
>
> Wow, okay. Care to elaborate on your experience?
>
> As for taking ownership of the project -- you're welcome to write
> your own
> library which is not a "stinking piece of shit" and take ownership of
> that.
> My giving the source I wrote for myself for my own projects away does
> not
> give you some kind of guarantee that it'll exactly suit your needs. I
> don't
> have any record of your suggestions, patches, or problem reports,
> which is
> the only way I'd know that it wasn't working for you. I'm happy to
> help try
> to diagnose problems, but if you're just sitting quietly fuming to
> yourself,
> there isn't much I can do for you.
>
> I'm sorry you so strongly disapprove of my code. I, too, am jealous
> of all
> the great NLP tools that Python has (especially nltk), but I'm at least
> trying to change that instead of sulking in a corner hurling insults at
> people that are giving you stuff for nothing.
>
> > Not to mention link parser support in linguistic library,which doesn't
> > work at all.
>
> It certainly works for me, and I again haven't had any reports from
> you to
> the contrary. My email address is in the README of every one of my
> projects.
>
> $ irb
> Requiring 'linguistics' module...
> Calling Linguistics::use( :en )
> irb(main):001:0>
> Linguistics::EN.has_link_parser?
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> "Get the leftmost ball from the rack.".sentence.verb
> => "get"
> irb(main):003:0> "Get the leftmost ball from the rack.".sentence.subject
> => nil
> irb(main):004:0> "Get the leftmost ball from the rack.".sentence.object
> => "ball"
> irb(main):005:0> puts "Get the leftmost ball from the
> rack.".sentence.diagram
>
> +-------------------------Xp-------------------------+
> | +--------------MVp-------------+ |
> | +-----------Os-----------+ | |
> | | +---------Ds--------+ +----Js---+ |
> +---Wi--+ | +-----A----+ | +--Ds-+ |
> | | | | | | | | |
> LEFT-WALL get.v the leftmost[?].a ball.n from the rack.n .
>
> => nil
>
>
> --

My apologies Michael, I honestly thought project went dormant, but i
am happy to be proved otherwise.

Yes, I got lots of segfaults when i tried to install the library and
in fact, I was able to install it on my machine eventually with
wordnet, link parser and everything, but it didn't work in many places
as advertised. Couple of guys on #ruby-lang had similar experience.

Anyway, i hope my comments were well intended, I am not shy from
contributing back to your project, but only so much time we have.

appleman

7/26/2007 3:20:00 AM

Hi Michael,

Glad you still read the mailing lists. I am going to try reinstalling
with bdb 4.6 and see if that makes a difference. I may have received
the core dumps because I used the ruby bdb driver 0.5.9. I'll see if
that solves the issues I'm having.

Cheers,
Henry

On Jul 24, 8:54 pm, Michael Granger <g...@FaerieMUD.org> wrote:
> On Jul 21, 2007, at 8:37 PM, hemant wrote:
>
> >> So far my experience with Ruby bindings for wordnet is, its stinking
> >> piece of shit. Its about time someone took ownership of this project
> >> and do something about it. I know I am not helping you much, but NLP
> >> is the one thing that makes me jealous of pythonists.
>
> Wow, okay. Care to elaborate on your experience?
>
> As for taking ownership of the project -- you're welcome to write
> your own
> library which is not a "stinking piece of shit" and take ownership of
> that.
> My giving the source I wrote for myself for my own projects away does
> not
> give you some kind of guarantee that it'll exactly suit your needs. I
> don't
> have any record of your suggestions, patches, or problem reports,
> which is
> the only way I'd know that it wasn't working for you. I'm happy to
> help try
> to diagnose problems, but if you're just sitting quietly fuming to
> yourself,
> there isn't much I can do for you.
>
> I'm sorry you so strongly disapprove of my code. I, too, am jealous
> of all
> the great NLP tools that Python has (especially nltk), but I'm at least
> trying to change that instead of sulking in a corner hurling insults at
> people that are giving you stuff for nothing.
>
> > Not to mention link parser support in linguistic library,which doesn't
> > work at all.
>
> It certainly works for me, and I again haven't had any reports from
> you to
> the contrary. My email address is in the README of every one of my
> projects.
>
> $ irb
> Requiring 'linguistics' module...
> Calling Linguistics::use( :en )
> irb(main):001:0>
> Linguistics::EN.has_link_parser?
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> "Get the leftmost ball from the rack.".sentence.verb
> => "get"
> irb(main):003:0> "Get the leftmost ball from the rack.".sentence.subject
> => nil
> irb(main):004:0> "Get the leftmost ball from the rack.".sentence.object
> => "ball"
> irb(main):005:0> puts "Get the leftmost ball from the
> rack.".sentence.diagram
>
> +-------------------------Xp-------------------------+
> | +--------------MVp-------------+ |
> | +-----------Os-----------+ | |
> | | +---------Ds--------+ +----Js---+ |
> +---Wi--+ | +-----A----+ | +--Ds-+ |
> | | | | | | | | |
> LEFT-WALL get.v the leftmost[?].a ball.n from the rack.n .
>
> => nil
>
> --
> Michael Granger <g...@FaerieMUD.org>
> Rubymage, Architect, Believer
> The FaerieMUD Consortium <http://www.FaerieMU...
> ruby -e "p 12383406064495388618631689469409153107.to_s(36).tr('z',' ')"

appleman

7/26/2007 3:41:00 AM

Well I recompiled using bdb version 4.6.18 and it did not core dump.
That means the key is getting the correct version of the bdb ruby
bindings (6.0). I'm still getting the same errors when running the
test cases.

Not sure what else to try from here.

On Jul 25, 10:19 pm, HH <apple...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Glad you still read the mailing lists. I am going to try reinstalling
> with bdb 4.6 and see if that makes a difference. I may have received
> the core dumps because I used the ruby bdb driver 0.5.9. I'll see if
> that solves the issues I'm having.
>
> Cheers,
> Henry
>
> On Jul 24, 8:54 pm, Michael Granger <g...@FaerieMUD.org> wrote:
>
> > On Jul 21, 2007, at 8:37 PM, hemant wrote:
>
> > >> So far my experience with Ruby bindings for wordnet is, its stinking
> > >> piece of shit. Its about time someone took ownership of this project
> > >> and do something about it. I know I am not helping you much, but NLP
> > >> is the one thing that makes me jealous of pythonists.
>
> > Wow, okay. Care to elaborate on your experience?
>
> > As for taking ownership of the project -- you're welcome to write
> > your own
> > library which is not a "stinking piece of shit" and take ownership of
> > that.
> > My giving the source I wrote for myself for my own projects away does
> > not
> > give you some kind of guarantee that it'll exactly suit your needs. I
> > don't
> > have any record of your suggestions, patches, or problem reports,
> > which is
> > the only way I'd know that it wasn't working for you. I'm happy to
> > help try
> > to diagnose problems, but if you're just sitting quietly fuming to
> > yourself,
> > there isn't much I can do for you.
>
> > I'm sorry you so strongly disapprove of my code. I, too, am jealous
> > of all
> > the great NLP tools that Python has (especially nltk), but I'm at least
> > trying to change that instead of sulking in a corner hurling insults at
> > people that are giving you stuff for nothing.
>
> > > Not to mention link parser support in linguistic library,which doesn't
> > > work at all.
>
> > It certainly works for me, and I again haven't had any reports from
> > you to
> > the contrary. My email address is in the README of every one of my
> > projects.
>
> > $ irb
> > Requiring 'linguistics' module...
> > Calling Linguistics::use( :en )
> > irb(main):001:0>
> > Linguistics::EN.has_link_parser?
> > => true
> > irb(main):002:0> "Get the leftmost ball from the rack.".sentence.verb
> > => "get"
> > irb(main):003:0> "Get the leftmost ball from the rack.".sentence.subject
> > => nil
> > irb(main):004:0> "Get the leftmost ball from the rack.".sentence.object
> > => "ball"
> > irb(main):005:0> puts "Get the leftmost ball from the
> > rack.".sentence.diagram
>
> > +-------------------------Xp-------------------------+
> > | +--------------MVp-------------+ |
> > | +-----------Os-----------+ | |
> > | | +---------Ds--------+ +----Js---+ |
> > +---Wi--+ | +-----A----+ | +--Ds-+ |
> > | | | | | | | | |
> > LEFT-WALL get.v the leftmost[?].a ball.n from the rack.n .
>
> > => nil
>
> > --
> > Michael Granger <g...@FaerieMUD.org>
> > Rubymage, Architect, Believer
> > The FaerieMUD Consortium <http://www.FaerieMU...
> > ruby -e "p 12383406064495388618631689469409153107.to_s(36).tr('z',' ')"

erilar

9/6/2012 4:34:00 PM

In article <aaq7u1FikcU1@mid.individual.net>,
"Joan in GB-W" <jjkreus@aol.com> wrote:

> "Irish Mike" <ad7cb8d@webnntp.invalid> wrote in message
> news:69ihh9xqqk.ln2@news.ezprovider.com...
> > By Thomas Basile
> >
> > 1. The National Debt. Now approaching $16 trillion, the national debt and
> > our debt to GDP ratio has never been worse despite the fact that Obama ran
> > on a platform of debt reduction.
> >
> > During the 2008 campaign he roundly attacked President Bush for borrowing
> > from China to spend money we didn't have. Now it seems that as long as
> > Obama is spending the money, the national debt doesn't matter. Under his
> > policies it is projected that the debt will be 200% of GDP by the 2030's.
> > Obama has already presided over a more than 25% increase in government
> > spending in just three and a half years. Unlike the RNC convention in
> > Tampa, there surely won't be a National Debt Clock hanging in the arena in
> > Charlotte.
> >
> > 2. The Real Unemployment Rate. Everyone knows the unemployment rate is
> > hovering over 8% and the president has to deliver his message to a nation
> > that hasn't seen the employment bounce-back promised from the $1 trillion
> > in stimulus. However, what you won't hear at the DNC are the real numbers
> > - 23 million people unemployed or underemployed making the real
> > unemployment rate, including those who have stopped looking for work at a
> > staggering 14.9%. Unemployment is also being concealed by the between 3-4
> > million people who have been added to the Social Security disability
> > insurance program since Obama took office.
> >
> > 3. Gas Prices. Obama hit President Bush hard for rising gas prices in 2008
> > and promised Americans relief at the pump. When he took office, the
> > national average for a gallon of gas stood at $1.95. Today, on Labor Day,
> > it's nearly double, and yet he scarcely mentions it. In How could he
> > after appointing an Energy Secretary that believes it would somehow be
> > good to have gas prices similar to Europe or after spending $1 billion on
> > a failed so-called green jobs program? Obama's stonewalling of the
> > Keystone XL pipeline is also further evidence that the president is too
> > focused on making the Chevy Volt viable rather than doing anything to
> > lower gas and energy prices for Americans.
> >
> > 4. More than one third of Americans are on Government Assistance. Obama
> > seems to be all for the culture of dependency, but don't expect him to
> > trumpet the idea that more than one third of the country is now receiving
> > some form of means-tested government assistance. That number is up from
> > about 24% under Bush. Of course, this welfare state isn't a creation of
> > the President, but between ObamaCare and his recent gutting of the work
> > requirement for welfare recipients, Obama is well on his way to building
> > his progressive utopia. The Romney camp should emphasize this point.
> > Americans will find it depressing and distasteful.
> >
> > 5. The Federal Jobs Created. For all the talk about the unemployment rate
> > and sluggish private sector growth, Obama has presided over the creation
> > of nearly 150,000 new unionized government jobs during his term. This
> > included thousands of new workers to manage ObamaCare at the IRS and the
> > Department of Health and Human Services. This is a big slap in the face
> > this is to the unemployed in the this country when you consider that the
> > average salary for a federal worker is now in excess of $70,000 plus
> > benefits. Federal workers who benefit from union protection are often
> > doing far better than their private sector counterparts these days. And
> > while GOP governors have been reducing the public payrolls on a state
> > level, Obama has continued to grow the federal bureaucracy."
> >
> > Irish Mike
> >
>
>
> You forgot Number 6.
>
> 6. Let them eat cake.

He's simply quoting all the RNC lies and generalities. He's not
interested in facts and actual numbers. A comparison of how much Bush
ran up the debt compared to Obama's restraint faced with the deep hole
Bush dug that he's trying to get us out of wipes out his number one and
the rest are equally far from valid.

--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist

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