Subject: Re: Thesaurus in KWord, using WordNet
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2001 - 03:53:16 CST
--- Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie> wrote: >
> [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).
I don't know if this is even possible, but if these
programs have this stuff in self-contained DLLs with
known APIs this is the sort of thing that I would love
to take a stab at. Do you know of any documentation?
Andrew Dunbar.
> 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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