Public, free thesaurus for GoldenDict
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:50 pm
Hi guys (and gals),
It seems that GoldenDict needs at least one publicly available and free from any copyright issues English Thesaurus. There is already a good dictionary available (Wordnet 3.0 based), but we need a thesaurus as well!
Looks like there is such free thesaurus after all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Project#Thesaurus
And it is pretty extensive too. Do you think it worth an effort to create a GoldenDict dictionary out of it and host it on goldendict site, alongside the Wordnet dictionary? I see that there is an En-Ru-En package readily available for GD users. Maybe we need to create En-En package (with the dictionary and thesaurus) so that many more users could try out GoldenDict with some good dictionaries out of the box?
It seems that GoldenDict needs at least one publicly available and free from any copyright issues English Thesaurus. There is already a good dictionary available (Wordnet 3.0 based), but we need a thesaurus as well!
Looks like there is such free thesaurus after all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Project#Thesaurus
And it is pretty extensive too. Do you think it worth an effort to create a GoldenDict dictionary out of it and host it on goldendict site, alongside the Wordnet dictionary? I see that there is an En-Ru-En package readily available for GD users. Maybe we need to create En-En package (with the dictionary and thesaurus) so that many more users could try out GoldenDict with some good dictionaries out of the box?