[sword-devel] request

[Joe Walker]

Martin Gruner wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am again coming up with a feature request.
> 
> I want thesauri to be included (dictionaries for similar words) in sword.
> Why? Imagine a search for similar words. The user's search word list is
> expanded by substituting each word with itself and its synonyms.
> Might be very useful.

It is. My Java Bible program does this, the big problem is - where do you
get your thesaurus data from.

I have 2 solutions:

The official solution - wordnet, I'm sure you can find it in a search.
IIRC there is a C interface already. we had to write a Java one though.
However this is a large download 10Mb (english only) or something.

The cheat solution.
To find words meaning something like loving, you have a list of known
endings to words (s, ed, ing, etc) and you strip off any known endings
(leaving 'lov') and then you search for lov*. The results are actually
surprisingly good. I18N is a bit tricky with this though.

Joe.