MyThes is a simple thesaurus that uses a structured

text data file and an index file with binary search

to lookup words and phrases and return information

on part of speech, meanings, and synonyms

MyThes was originall written to provide a thesaurus

for the OpenOffice.org project 

The Main features of MyThes are:

1. written in C++ to make it easier to interface with 

   LibreOffice, OpenOffice, AbiWord, Pspell, etc

2. it is stateless, uses no static variables and

   should be completely reentrant with no ifdefs  

3. it compiles with -ansi and -pedantic and -Wall

   with no warnigns so it shouldbe quite portable

4. it uses a simple perl program to read the structured

   text file and create the index needed for binary

   searching

5. it is very simple with *lots* of comments.

   The main "smarts" are in the structure of the

   text file that makes up the thesaurus data

6. It comes with a ready-to-go structured thesaurus

   data file for en_US extracted from the WordNet-2.0 data.

   Please see WordNet_license.txt and WordNet_readme.txt

   for more information on the very useful project!

   See http://www.danielnaber.de/wn2ooo/ for utilities to

   regenerate an up to date English thesaurus from the most

   recent WordNet data.

7. The source code has a BSD license (and no advertising clause)

MyThes comes with a simple example program that looks up some words and returns

meanings and synonyms.

To build it simply do the following:

unzip mythes.zip

cd mythes

./configure

make

To run the example program:

./example th_en_US_new.idx th_en_US_new.dat checkme.lst

To run the example program with stemming and morphological generation:

e.g. to check mouse, mice, rodents, eats, eaten, ate, eating etc. words

./example morph.idx morph.dat morph.lst morph.aff morph.dic

NOTE: this is only an example and test environment for dictionary developers,

full English stemming and morphological generation needs an improved

English Hunspell dictionary.

László Németh <nemeth at OO.o>

Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>