On Wednesday 25 July 2007 09:05, Sam Schmidt wrote:

Sam,

> I am happy to build and create a PHP/MySQL based site to maintain an
> English (Australian) version of the thesaurus (I noticed only English UK
> and English USA is available). I am happy to host this in a not for
> profit manner on my server space on fast Australian (geo located here.)
> servers.

thanks for your offer. For most languages, you could indeed start and set 
up your own installation of OpenThesaurus. However, English is a special 
case as there is already WordNet which covers, as you mentioned, American 
and British English. It's not possible to import WordNet into 
OpenThesaurus without losing informantion, and even if it was, both 
versions would diverge over time. The proper approach is to do some 
research on how WordNet could be expanded with Australian English terms in 
a way that does not duplicate data. If you would like to do this, that 
would be great.

Regards
 Daniel

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http://www.danielnaber.de
 

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