What do you perceive as the advantages and disadvantages of using Perl versus a Web Services approach to looking up words in WordNet? Here at Notre Dame we plan to exploit WordNet [1] to facilitate a Find More Like This One service against searches of a bibliographic index. We plan to write this service in Perl and there are two Perl modules [2, 3] with interfaces to WordNet. There is also a Web Services-based interface to WordNet [4]. Consequently, I have two questions. First, do you have any experience using either one of these Perl modules? Second, I could pull my WordNet data from the WordNet files via Perl, or I could pull my WordNet data from the Web Service. Which might be better in the long run? If I use the Perl approach I may be able to be more granular in my data extraction. If I use the Web Services approach then I am less dependent on a particular API. [1] WordNet - http://wordnet.princeton.edu/ [2] Lingua-Wordnet - http://search.cpan.org/dist/Lingua-Wordnet/ [3] WordNet-QueryData - http://search-dev.develooper.com/~jrennie/WordNet-QueryData-1.37/ [4] WordNet Web Service - http://wnws.sourceforge.net/ -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame (574) 631-8604