Comments on: Scaling the Fence: Achilles’ Thesaurus http://www.daverea.com/2009/08/scaling-the-fence-achilles-thesaurus/ Stuff that I care about, but that you're free to disregard Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:22:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Links 31/08/2009: New Elive, Samsung Linux Phones Leaked | Boycott Novell http://www.daverea.com/2009/08/scaling-the-fence-achilles-thesaurus/comment-page-1/#comment-114032 Links 31/08/2009: New Elive, Samsung Linux Phones Leaked | Boycott Novell Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:52:57 +0000 http://www.daverea.com/?p=1226#comment-114032 [...] Scaling the Fence: Achilles’ Thesaurus Language tools like the thesaurus present an opportunity for the open source community. Just as our friend was quickly dissuaded from using OpenOffice.org because she perceived the thesaurus to be inferior, she might have been quickly won-over by a toolset that performed head-and-shoulders above those she was used to. Between WordNet, the OpenRogets project, the Big Huge Thesaurus, the New York Times’ thesaurus and the Moby Project (hey, it’s only the largest thesaurus in the English language!), we have the opportunity to package an offline thesaurus (or offer an optional download supplement, if binary size is a concern) for OpenOffice.org that could run circles around proprietary offerings. [...] [...] Scaling the Fence: Achilles’ Thesaurus Language tools like the thesaurus present an opportunity for the open source community. Just as our friend was quickly dissuaded from using OpenOffice.org because she perceived the thesaurus to be inferior, she might have been quickly won-over by a toolset that performed head-and-shoulders above those she was used to. Between WordNet, the OpenRogets project, the Big Huge Thesaurus, the New York Times’ thesaurus and the Moby Project (hey, it’s only the largest thesaurus in the English language!), we have the opportunity to package an offline thesaurus (or offer an optional download supplement, if binary size is a concern) for OpenOffice.org that could run circles around proprietary offerings. [...]

]]> By: dave http://www.daverea.com/2009/08/scaling-the-fence-achilles-thesaurus/comment-page-1/#comment-114029 dave Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:21:24 +0000 http://www.daverea.com/?p=1226#comment-114029 Hi Rob - I provisioned a new machine with Ubuntu 8.10 this past weekend (after this post was written, but before it was posted) and installed OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 via the Launchpad repositories. I tried a couple of the words above, and it appeared the data source is the same. Hi Rob – I provisioned a new machine with Ubuntu 8.10 this past weekend (after this post was written, but before it was posted) and installed OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 via the Launchpad repositories. I tried a couple of the words above, and it appeared the data source is the same.

]]> By: Rob Lazzurs http://www.daverea.com/2009/08/scaling-the-fence-achilles-thesaurus/comment-page-1/#comment-114028 Rob Lazzurs Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:08:44 +0000 http://www.daverea.com/?p=1226#comment-114028 Hello, Do you know if the latest version of OpenOffice.org has an improvements in this area? Hello,

Do you know if the latest version of OpenOffice.org has an improvements in this area?

]]> By: Gordon Haverland http://www.daverea.com/2009/08/scaling-the-fence-achilles-thesaurus/comment-page-1/#comment-114026 Gordon Haverland Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:46:12 +0000 http://www.daverea.com/?p=1226#comment-114026 Apparently Aiksaurus is used in Abiword, and can be used in other ways (I ran across it via CPAN, and a perl interface). UTexas has a PHP version on the web. www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jared/aiksaurus/index.cgi --- I don't use Thesaurii, so I don't really know what it is that this PHP page is displaying. Only beneath got no results. Apparently Aiksaurus is used in Abiword, and can be used in other ways (I ran across it via CPAN, and a perl interface). UTexas has a PHP version on the web. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jared/aiksaurus/index.cgi

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I don’t use Thesaurii, so I don’t really know what it is that this PHP page is displaying. Only beneath got no results.

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