# &kthesaurus;

Daniel
Naber

    daniel.naber@t-online.de

2003-04-12
0.95.00
2002
2003
Daniel Naber

&kthesaurus; lists words related to a given term and offers a user interface to &wordnet;, a powerful lexical reference system. By default, only the English language is supported.

KDE
thesaurus
WordNet
synonyms
dictionary
lexicon
English
words

## The Thesaurus Tab

The Thesaurus tab offers a small thesaurus, built from a subset of &wordnet;. The results are listed in three categories: Synonyms, More general words (hypernyms), More specific words (hyponyms). Synonyms are words with a very similar meaning. They do not necessarily apply to all senses of each word, so you cannot always replace a word with any synonym.

You can double click on a word to search for its synonyms &etc;. You can also type a word directly into the Search for: box at the top and press Return. The word which is currently visible in the Replace with: box at the bottom is the one that will be used if you click on Replace.

&kthesaurus; can be used as a standalone application, but it can also be used from other applications (like &kword;, typically by right clicking on a word and selecting Show related words). The Replace button will only be visible if &kthesaurus; is called from another application.

We have to keep the data file small so that it can be included in &koffice; — this introduces several limitations (compared to &wordnet;):

- Only exact matches are found, &eg; if you search for a plural form nothing will be found.

- Many not so common words have been removed.

- It doesn't distinguish between parts of speech, e.g. verbs and nouns are mixed up in the lists of words.

- It won't separate the different meanings words can have.

- Adjectives don't really have a more general / more specific meaning, so one word may appear in more than one list at the same time.

On the other hand, a few words have been added (function words like if and very few words specific to &kde;).

Please do not report bugs in the thesaurus to the &wordnet; project, but to &kde;.

## Using languages besides English

By default, only the English language is supported in &kthesaurus;. You can check out the KOffice download page the see which other languages are available.

## The &wordnet; tab

The &wordnet; tab provides a user interface to a local installation of &wordnet; 1.7. &wordnet; is an online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. The &kthesaurus; user interface offers nearly all options which are available on the command line. It calls the `wn` binary, which has to be in your `PATH`.

To learn more about &wordnet;, please see the &wordnet; `man` pages or have a look at the &wordnet; homepage.

## Copyright and Licensing

&kthesaurus; and this documentation is copyrighted by Daniel Naber.

&underFDL; &underGPL;

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