1 MyThes is a simple thesaurus that uses a structured
2 text data file and an index file with binary search
3 to lookup words and phrases and return information
4 on part of speech, meanings, and synonyms
6 MyThes was written to provide a thesaurus for the
9 The Main features of MyThes are:
11 1. written in C++ to make it easier to interface with
12 Pspell, OpenOffice, AbiWord, etc
14 2. it is stateless, uses no static variables and
15 should be completely reentrant with no ifdefs
17 3. it compiles with -ansi and -pedantic and -Wall
18 with no warnings so it should be quite portable
20 4. it uses a perl program to read the structured
21 text file and create the index needed for bianry
22 searching (see dictionaries/en_US/th_gen_idx.pl)
24 5. it is very simple with *lots* of comments.
25 The main "smarts" are in the structure of the
26 text file that makes up the thesaurus data
28 6. It comes with a ready-to-go structured thesaurus
29 data file for en_US extracted from the WordNet-2.0 data.
30 (see dictioanries/en_US/th_en_US_new.dat)
32 Please see WordNet_license.txt and WordNet_readme.txt
33 for more information on the very useful project!
34 (found in dictionaries/en_US/)
36 7. The source code has a BSD license (and no advertising clause)
39 MyThes has the world's simplest Makefile and no
40 configure support. It does come with a simple example
41 program that looks up some words and returns meanings
44 To build it simply do the following:
50 To run the example program:
51 ./example th_en_US_new.idx th_en_US_new.dat checkme.lst
53 Please play around with it and let me know
59 kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca