Hi, I have checked this feature in MS Office 2007. It suggests only the first 8 synonyms without any logic, for example, all synonyms from the first synset (with an antynom) and a few synonyms from the second one.
The problem is the huge Wordnet database of OpenOffice.org English thesaurus. I think, the best solution to remove all synsets and synonyms with parenthesized category names, and keeping the first 8 synonyms, like MS Office. Regards, László 2009/11/26 Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <thomas.la...@sun.com>: > > Hi all, > > Currently I'm implementing thesaurus entry (i.e. synonym list sub menu, > see issue 51258) in right click context menu and stumbled upon a minor > issue that I can't solve. Basically everything is already as it should > be apart from this: > > If a click on 'white' then 'black' is listed among the synonyms. > That is, if the antonym is found early in the list of synonyms it will > be displayed as well. This happens because the first entry for 'light' > in the thesaurus dictionary looks like this: > > (adj)|albescent (similar term)|light (related term)|light-colored > (related term)|black (antonym) > > since the explanation within in the parenthesis are all language > depended, or more precisely dictionary dependend, I'm missing a working > way to properly identify the antonym. > Thus it seems this problem can't be fixed unless I get a complete list > for the strings used for antonyms in each language where a thesaurus is > available. And even that is a solution I do not particularly favor since > it is likely to break sooner or later either because of new introduced > languages or typos in the dictionary. > > Does anybody have other ideas to solve this? > > If not, it seems about the only thing we can do is to remember that a > future thesaurus format (and maybe an extended API) need to take care of > the problem by allowing for language independent identification of the > antonyms. > > > Regards, > Thomas > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lingucomponent.openoffice.org
