Installation

Requirements

The following are software and hardware requirements for DODDLE-OWL.

  • OS: Operating System running Java

  • Memory: 1GB or higher

  • HDD: 1GB or higher

  • Display Resolution: XGA(1024×768)

Acknowledgements

DODDLE-OWL uses the following libraries. Since these libraries are included in DODDLE-OWL, users don’t have to get the libraries.

Optional Software

DODDLE-OWL uses the following software optionally.

Warning

  • Since Beta 6, MeCab and CaboCha only support UTF-8.

    • As of November 2008, the latest versions of MeCab and CaboCha support UTF-8. (For Windows, select “UTF-8” as the dictionary character code during installation. For Unix and Mac, specify –with-charset=utf8 as a configure option.)

  • In order to extract Japanese compound words, Perl, Chasen (or MeCab), and CaboCha are required.

  • In order to extract English compound words, Perl is required.

  • In order to use EDR dictionary (EDR general vocaburary dictionary or EDR technical terminology dictionary) as general ontologies, EDR are required. You need to change EDR into a format for DODDLE using EDR2DODDLE_DIC_Converter.

Reference Ontologies

English General Ontology

Japanese General Ontologies

How to install

Windows

Download doddle-owl-26.5.1.msi from the download page and execute the file.

macOS

Download doddle-owl-26.5.1.dmg from the download page and extract the file to any directory.

How to uninstall

Remove the extracted folder.

How to execute

Execute DODDLE-OWL.exe or DODDLE-OWL.app file.

Configurations

Configurations can be set in the Option Dialog in DODDLE-OWL.

Option Dialog: Basic Tab

  • Language

    • You can display the menu in English or Japanese by specifying “en” or “ja”.

  • Base prefix

    • You can set the prefix for concepts defined by the user.

  • Base URI

    • You can set the base URI for the ontology when saving it.

Option Dialog: Folder Tab

  • Project folder

    • Default path: C:/DODDLE-OWL/DODDLEProject

    • You can set the folder where project files are saved. This folder will be the starting point when saving or restoring projects.

  • Stop word list

    • Default path: C:/DODDLE-OWL/stop_word_list.txt

    • You can set the file that contains the list of words to be ignored during term extraction.

  • EDR dic folder

    • Default path: C:/DODDLE-OWL/EDR_DIC

    • You can set the folder where the text data of the EDR general dictionary converted for DODDLE is stored.

  • EDRT dic folder

    • Default path: C:/DODDLE-OWL/EDRT_DIC

    • You can set the folder where the text data of the EDR technical dictionary converted for DODDLE is stored.

  • Japanese morphological analyzer

    • Default path: C:/Program Files/ChaSen/chasen.exe

    • This is required when using the compound word extraction module. (chasen21 is not supported)

  • Japanese dependency parser

    • Default path: C:/Program Files/CaboCha/bin/cabocha.exe

    • This is required when extracting compound words.

  • perl.exe

    • Default path: C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe

    • This is required when using TermExtract.

  • Upper concept list

    • Default path: C:/DODDLE-OWL/upperConceptList.txt

    • You can set the list of upper concepts. This is used to check if a word is a subclass of a specified concept in the EDR.

How to use EDR dictionary as general ontologies

To refer to the EDR Electronic Dictionary as a general-purpose ontology in DODDLE-OWL, the text data of the dictionary must be converted into a format compatible with DODDLE-OWL. The following section describes the procedure for this conversion.

The time required to convert the EDR General Dictionary and EDR Technical Dictionary into a format compatible with DODDLE-OWL, using an iMac with a 4GHz Intel Core i7 processor and 32GB of RAM, is as follows:

  • EDR general vocaburary dictionary: about 3 minutes

  • EDR technical terminology dictionary: about 40 seconds

Requirements

  • More than 1GB of RAM (Recommendation 2GB)

  • EDR general vocaburary dictionary or EDR technical terminology dictionary

EDR general vocaburary dictionary

  1. Copy CPC.DIC, CPH.DIC, CPT.DIC, EWD.DIC, and JWD.DIC to any directory (e.g. C:/EDR_Text/).

  2. Select “DODDLE Dic Converter” sub menu in Tool menu. Then, a dialog is shown. (Fig. 1)

  3. Select “EDR” as Dictionary Type. Check “Text” as Conversion Type.

  4. Set path for Input Dictionary Path and Output Dictionary Path (EDR Dic Folder).

  5. Click Convert Button. Then, concept.data, relation.data, tree.data, word.data, concept.index, relation.index, tree.index, and word.index are generated in EDR Dic Folder.

  6. Set path for EDR Dic Folder in the Option Dialog.

EDR technical terminology dictionary

  1. Copy TCPC.DIC, TCPH.DIC, TEWD.DIC, and TJWD.DIC to any directory (e.g. C:/EDRT_Text/).

  2. Select “DODDLE Dic Converter” sub menu in Tool menu. Then, a dialog is shown. (Fig. 1)

  3. Select “EDRT” as Dictionary Type. Check “Text” as Conversion Type.

  4. Set path for Input Dictionary Path and Output Dictionary Path (EDRT Dic Folder).

  5. Click Convert Button. Then, concept.data, tree.data, word.data, concept.index, tree.index, and word.index are generated in EDRT Dic Folder.

  6. Set path for EDRT Dic Folder using Option Dialog.

DODDLE_Dic_Converter

Fig. 1 DODDLE_Dic_Converter