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diff --git a/lingucomponent/source/thesaurus/mythes/README b/lingucomponent/source/thesaurus/mythes/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..421f16a712fe --- /dev/null +++ b/lingucomponent/source/thesaurus/mythes/README @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +MyThes is a simple thesaurus that uses a structured +text data file and an index file with binary search +to lookup words and phrases and return information +on part of speech, meanings, and synonyms + +MyThes was written to provide a thesaurus for the +OpenOffice.org project + +The Main features of MyThes are: + +1. written in C++ to make it easier to interface with + Pspell, OpenOffice, AbiWord, etc + +2. it is stateless, uses no static variables and + should be completely reentrant with no ifdefs + +3. it compiles with -ansi and -pedantic and -Wall + with no warnings so it should be quite portable + +4. it uses a perl program to read the structured + text file and create the index needed for bianry + searching (see dictionaries/en_US/th_gen_idx.pl) + +5. it is very simple with *lots* of comments. + The main "smarts" are in the structure of the + text file that makes up the thesaurus data + +6. It comes with a ready-to-go structured thesaurus + data file for en_US extracted from the WordNet-2.0 data. + (see dictioanries/en_US/th_en_US_new.dat) + + Please see WordNet_license.txt and WordNet_readme.txt + for more information on the very useful project! + (found in dictionaries/en_US/) + +7. The source code has a BSD license (and no advertising clause) + + +MyThes has the world's simplest Makefile and no +configure support. It does come with a simple example +program that looks up some words and returns meanings +and synonyms. + +To build it simply do the following: + +unzip mythes.zip +cd mythes +make + +To run the example program: +./example th_en_US_new.idx th_en_US_new.dat checkme.lst + +Please play around with it and let me know +what you think. + +Thanks, + +Kevin Hendricks +kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca + |