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<DIV>Hi Wayne,</DIV>
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<DIV> Here is a site where you can download Wordnet 2.0.1.1 (University</DIV>
<DIV>of TX at Dallas). </DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://xwn.hlt.utdallas.edu/downloads.html">http://xwn.hlt.utdallas.edu/downloads.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV> Here is another:</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/downloads.html">http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/downloads.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV> This contains various GNU-licensed versions of Wordnet.</DIV>
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<DIV> WordNet was created at Princeton and I know they also</DIV>
<DIV>have an archive for downloads, with help files. There are a </DIV>
<DIV>variety of sites which feature assistance files for use of the</DIV>
<DIV>Wordnet versions.</DIV>
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<DIV> Hope you find this useful. I believe that the various Siouan</DIV>
<DIV>language sites have already made use of this and I have also</DIV>
<DIV>seen a Navajo language site in the past which has also used</DIV>
<DIV>it...it is well suited for the complex morpholigal relationships</DIV>
<DIV>encountered in Native languages, by my understanding.</DIV>
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<DIV>Guy Gambill</DIV>
<DIV> <BR><BR><B><I>Wayne Leman <wayne_leman@sil.org></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><TT>John Koontz responded:<BR><BR>> On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Wayne Leman wrote:<BR>> > Marie-Odile, the CD release is experimental so far. We are looking for<BR>ways<BR>> > to improve it. If we can make it easier for Cheyennes to locate<BR>headwords<BR>> > (and, hopefully, also retain display of semantic closeness by dictionary<BR>> > location closeness), we want to do that. There is no search engine on<BR>the<BR>> > CD. The dictionary is just a Microsoft Word document exported from<BR>Shoebox.<BR>> > The user searches the dictionary just as they do any printed dictionary.<BR>><BR>> It seems to me that one way to get this effect is to publish in HTML or<BR>> XML format instead of *.doc format.<BR><BR>John, recent versions of MS Word include hyperlink and easy conversion from<BR>.doc format to HTML format, as well as direct editing of HTML
files. The<BR>Cheyenne dictionary has thousands of hyperlinks as one of its main features<BR>for accessing the sound files to hear the pronunciations of words. It is a<BR>simple matter to add links to related semantic forms. We already have the<BR>relationships stated in the .doc file, but can also link those<BR>relationships. I do know if Shoebox or Toolbox (I assume LinguaLinks has it)<BR>currently has a way to program those hyperlinks, but it is a feature which<BR>would be extremely useful for a dictionary.<BR><BR>> I guess *.pdf format also allows<BR>> links.<BR><BR>Yes<BR><BR>> Any format that allows links permits easy connections among forms<BR>> with the same stem and indices by stems are easy to provide separately or<BR>> intermingled with the "word form" list. Linking means that closeness is<BR>> no longer defined only by physical proximity.<BR>><BR>> Would Guy Gambil's Wordnet suggestion be a way of automating this sort of<BR>>
thing?<BR><BR>I am not familiar with WordNet but would like to learn more, just as I would<BR>like to learn more about any program that will display lexical relationships<BR>nicely, and will produce output which is user-friendly to native speakers of<BR>those languages. I hope that those on this list using programs besides the<BR>ones that the list Poll (still available for further voting) shows most<BR>commonly used can describe the programs they are using, their helpful<BR>features, etc.<BR><BR>Wayne<BR>-----<BR>Wayne Leman<BR>Cheyenne website: <A href="http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language">http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language</A><BR><BR>><BR>> Of course, even extensive linking is not a complete replacement for<BR>> searching facilities.<BR>><BR>> John Koontz<BR><BR></TT></BLOCKQUOTE><p><hr size=1><font face=arial size=-1>Do you Yahoo!?<br>
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