[Gllug] Thesaurus based searching

Pete Ryland pdr at pdr.cx
Wed Nov 13 23:08:59 UTC 2002


On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:46:49PM +0000, Andrew Richardson wrote:
> There is a terminal based open source thesaurus called aiksaurus.  I don't 
> know if you could put it to use on a webserver but the URL is I believe
> 
> http://www.aiksaurus.com

Oh yeah - that too.  This is the one that abiword uses AFAIK.  Both this and
dict are architected in such a way as to seperate the front end from the
data serving, so a web front end would not be difficult to write.
www.dict.org is one such implementation.

Pete

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