Re: no thesaurus

Hello Gerard,

The interesting thing is that WordWeb (which I've used in Windows) is a
Windows-only application. But it is based on Princeton's Wordnet
project, which *does* have a Linux version. The WordWeb FAQ also states
this:

 
>
> *Will there be a Linux, Mac, Pocet PC, Palm, etc, version?*
>
> A future Linux version is a possibility, though unlikely in the
> near future. There is unlikely to be a version for other
> platforms. Please contact if you would be interested in developing
> a Linux version.
>

Now supposing that WordWeb is significantly different from (or better
than) Wordnet, I wonder whether an ambitious developer could provide a
plug-in of the free version of WordWeb, one that could be used with
either Windows or Linux Abi, and maybe even function as one of the
components of the $100 laptop project--a great tool for young people
learning to use a great language resource along with Abiword. (Sometimes
I'm so uninformed about these things I cannot begin to grasp how much is
impossible...)

--Mark Richardson

Gerard Huijing wrote:
>
> For Windows there is also WordWeb (www.wordweb.com). <snip>

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Received on Wed Aug 2 20:07:08 2006