On Saturday 17 March 2007 11:39, Marcin Miłkowski wrote: > Hi Graham, > > Graham Lauder napisał(a): > >>> 2. Contact the Wordnet people and ask them if there's a way to > >>> contribute Commonwealth words in a way they are marked in the data, > >>> i.e. they can be filtered out for those who don't want them. > >>> > >>> 2 is clearly the better solution. Thanks for your offer to host the > >>> thesaurus, but the technical hosting is actually the easy part. What is > >>> needed for a good long-term solution is someone who's willing to work > >>> on solution 2 above. > > > > Sorry but solution 2 is not a solution at all. Princeton is dealing with > > th_en_US and I presume th_en_GB not en_NZ or for that matter AU and ZA > > and so on > > If you want to build an English thesaurus that is better than Wordnet, > then, well, good luck, but remember - you have been warned.
Warned? about what? If the Wordnet list is Opensource then what is the issue? > > I'd recommend searching for local English Wordnets (or similar > linguistic projects), maybe there are Australian versions. I've already done that, those that I've seen are small operations run by a single enthusiast on a small backroom server that has a single point of failure. My client is a large Multinational corporate that runs the largest distribution network in NZ and Australia that includes Rail, Shipping, Air and Road. The ISS department with which I deal employs 70 highly skilled IT staff. Without exception, they identified the thesaurus as a weak link in OOo and as such are offering to help solve this problem. This is NOT a trivial offer, this is an opportunity for the project to develop the Thesaurus component in OOo. My Client will assign space on their servers, a Project Manager to look after the project and so forth >Trying to > build a new thesaurus from scratch is simply futile. It's a good thing Mr Roget didn't think that. >See: > > http://www.globalwordnet.org/ There is a problem in the thesaurus implementation in OOo. Setting OOo to English (UK) in options>languages results in the thesaurus being greyed out. The assumption then is that there is no thesaurus installed for that localisation... ie English English. Given that this is the source of all English variations, not having a Thesaurus is patently absurd. therefore wordnet is not doing the job and a fix is needed Right now all I see is barriers that need removing If therefore Openthesaurus is a bad option, the assumption I take from what you are saying is; setting up a local Wordnet is the best alternative. Does that allow for community input? What is the step from Wordnet Database to installed Thesaurus in OOo? Where can I find someone who can exchange emails with my clients people to get them under way Cheers GL -- "GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG" http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
