Conversion of Senseval-1 data to Senseval-2 Format: A Readme
			DRY RUN DATA VERSION
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	       Satanjeev Banerjee and Ted Pedersen
		 University of Minnesota, Duluth
		 {bane0025, tpederse}@d.umn.edu  
                      9th September, 2001  


Introduction: 
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Prior to the regular Senseval 1 competition, there was a preliminary
corpus of sense-tagged text made available to participants, known
as the DRY RUN data. This data is in a somewhat different format than
the data used in the actual Senseval 1 competition, so the script 
sensevalOne2Two.pl does not work on this data. The script dryrun2sval2.pl
is provided to convert the DRY RUN data into the Senseval 2 format. 
See [2] for further details the data format.  This script is written 
in Perl and is freely available under the  GNU Public License.  

Note the the Senseval 1 DRY RUN data is only available by request
from the Senseval coordinators. See [1] for contact information. Once
you obtain and unpack this data, you will likely find it in a directory 
called CORPUS that contains 38 .cor files that have been manually tagged
with HECTOR senses. 

Usage:
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dryrun2sval2.pl

This script takes the training files in the Senseval1 dry run 
format and converts them into a single xml file in Senseval 2 format.

     > Running the script with no switches gives a brief useage
       note. It also lets you know that further help can be obtained
       by running the script with the --help switch.

    > There is one manadatory switch:

       a> --dir            specifies the directory in which the
                           dry run data resides. 

    > There are two optional switches: 

       a> --clean_up       removes all capitalization, converts
			   multiple white space to single white space,
			   and removes new lines. 

       b> --numeric_answers_only  
                           some answers are accompanied with hyphenated
                           notes from the human taggers. This switch
                           gets rid of them, and retains only the
                           numerical portion of the answers. 

       > To obtain the data we provide, we ran the script thusly:
 
       dryrun2sval2.pl --dir CORPUS > dry-run.xml

Bug Reports:
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We have spot-tested the data and tested the conversion scripts, and
have fixed all bugs we found. However, since there is always One More
Bug, we request you to keep your eyes open for such, and to let us
know if you find descrepencies. Bug reports, comments and criticism
can be sent to {tpederse, bane0025}@d.umn.edu.


References: 
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[1] Kilgarriff, Adam. "English SENSEVAL Resources in the Public
    Domain." World Wide Web document, url:
    http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/events/senseval/ARCHIVE/resources.html

[2] "Senseval 2: Second International Workshop on Evaluating Word
    Sense Disambiguation Systems." World Wide Web document, url:
    http://www.sle.sharp.co.uk/senseval2/

Copying:
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Acknowledgment:
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This work has been partially supported by a National Science Foundation
Faculty Early CAREER Development award (#0092784) and by a Grant-in-Aid 
of Research, Artistry and Scholarship from the Office of the Vice 
President for Research and the Dean of the Graduate School of the 
University of Minnesota.