Subject: Re: Thesaurus in KWord, using WordNet
From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Wed Nov 28 2001 - 05:03:22 CST
[totally random non-sequitor]
you might consider the fact that many users will be swithing/upgrading
from another word processor.
Perhaps you could write a thesaurus interface to other programs, so that
i can use the old Corel WordPefect Thesaurus or MS Word thesaurus that i
have on my computer?
(of course this is just a totally random suggestion, im not going to file
it as a RFE, but it does make some sense to exploit the resources that
users may have from their previous word processor/office suite).
Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie>
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Martin Sevior wrote:
> 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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