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RE: [kidsgames] wordnet
Could be good! I'll research both.
Brian
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> From: owner-kidsgames@smluc.org [mailto:owner-kidsgames@smluc.org]On
> Behalf Of Paul Kienzle
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 8:53 AM
> To: kidsgames@smluc.org
> Subject: [kidsgames] wordnet
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> I don't recall if WordNet has been mentioned here before, but I use it
> as my primary dictionary -- it is that complete. The great thing about
> it is that it is crosslinked to death, and includes not only synonyms
> and antonyms, but also part-whole categorizations and a whole host of
> other things. If you want a machine readable semantic network for the
> English language, then this is it:
> http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/w3wn.html
> Or you can install the dict-wn package from your Debian distribution.
>
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> There is also a EuroWordNet project (http://www.hum.uva.nl/~ewn/)
> which takes this framework and adds a bunch of other languages
> (Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Czech and Estonian),
> but charges a hefty fee. Might be worth it if I were still
> doing translation. I notice they have freely available samples at
> http://www.hum.uva.nl/~ewn/data/sampleData.html. The particularly
> tempting one is:
>
> ili.zip (20.4MB) The Inter-Lingual-Index for matching
> synsets across wordnets.
>
> Sure sounds like this might be a multilingual dictionary. Anyone have
> access to a reliable fast connection, Windows 9x and some time on
> their hands to see if this is really what I hope it is?
>
> Their copyright doesn't explicitly prohibit or allow redistribution with
> or without modification, but "any purpose" sure sounds like we could
> use it:
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