This sounds fantastic, but I'd probably just go out and buy a professional semantic analysis tool if I was going to go the non-free route. Are there any other options for wrapping Perl scripts? | [reply] |
One way to wrap a perl program is to use a web server. Create a server that takes an input of two strings and return the relatedness. The server can keep WordNet loaded between requests.
The server could be something like Apache and mod_perl, or it could be something like POE::Component::Server::HTTP.
I use the Cygwin environment and the POE modules to interface to other programs this way. However, I wasn't able to get POE working well until a learned a fair amount of Perl. Maybe you will get lucky and find a POE example that is very close to what you need.
This might not be the 'absolute simplest' to develop, but after you get it working your code will be quite simple!
It should work perfectly the first time! - toma
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Yeah, I thought about using a server to handle the issue. The problem with this method is that, ideally, my finished application (excel sheet + custom VBA functions + working Perl scripts) is going to be transferred to other users, who are not even able to be considered n00bs. I'm trying to keep the techie overhead and the requisite configuration to a minimum so that I can just bundle up the necessary Perl directories in a .zip and send them along with my spreadsheet.
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