Subject: Re: Thesaurus in KWord, using WordNet
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Nov 28 2001 - 02:42:23 CST
Hi Daniel,
Thanks very much for your interest in us. We now have a working
plugin system that I think you might be able to use quite easily.
We also have a working theasarus, aiksaurus, written by our website
maintainer Jared Davis. If you look at his plugin code in
( abisource cvs module aiksaurus/gtk/abiplugin/aiksauris.cpp)
I think you'll see it is quite easy to take what you need to interfacce
into abiword via the plugins. Most of the work is done for you.
Jared had issues with WordNet because it's advertising clause. I'm not
sure if that makes it GPL-compatible? Of course we can only accept GPL
compatible code in abiword.
I also know that Jared is hard at work on his next generation
Theasurus. I've played with the beta his has hooked up via a web interface
and it is really cool. It's much better than aiksaurus already.
Maybe you two might want to cooperate?
Cheers
Martin
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Daniel Naber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> maybe this is interesting for you:
>
> I've added an English thesaurus to KWord, KDE's word processor. I did not
> use the Moby list / AikSaurus (as AbiWord seems to do), but a subset of
> WordNet. I'm confident that this offers better quality, i.e. the number of
> suggested words is lower but they make more sense. Our data file is 800kB
> big and offers synonyms, hypernyms (more general words) and hyponyms (more
> specific words), i.e. it's small enough to be part of the KWord
> distribution.
>
> Currently part of speech information is not shown, i.e. verbs, nouns etc
> are all mixed up. However, this could easily be added, I think it would
> only slightly increase the data file size.
>
> You can check out two screenshots here:
> http://www.danielnaber.de/tmp/
>
> The source and data is accessible here (to actually try it you need KDE
> and KOffice from CVS):
> http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/koffice/tools/thesaurus/
>
> Although I don't have time and knowledge to add this to software besides
> KWord I'm willing to answer any questions if you want to include it in
> e.g. AbiWord.
>
> Regards
> Daniel
>
> --
> http://www.danielnaber.de
>
>
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