Marcus,

Thanks for your reply.

After further examination of the code, I did determine that the current 
WordNet methods do rely on "page-scraping" to get the responses. It 
appears that most WordNet clients download the database and and the 
APIs provided by the site to offer a independent WordNet service 
instead of querying the site. I do agree that the current WordNet code 
is broken and should probably be removed from Squeak. It would be nice 
to have something to replace it with. I did some research and found 
there is a online dictionary protocol, DICT as described in RFC 2229 
and some projects that support this:

http://www.dict.org/links.html
http://www.freedict.org/en/

Many of the DICT servers online also offer WordNet access in addition 
to other resources. There are free clients and servers available and I 
did realize that I do have the OmniDictionary client and the DICTatoro 
server on my local OS X computer.  So instead of replicating what the 
WordNet class in Squeak 3.8 is now, I may try to see if I can create a 
DICT client with similar functionality. Wish me luck, since I'm new to 
Smalltalk, OO and network protocols. I will probably examine the code 
from some of the Python client, since that is the language I'm most 
familiar with.

Chris


On Nov 22, 2005, at 6:15 AM, Marcus Denker wrote:

> Hello,
>
> because the wordnet code is broken, I have removed it from 3.9a.
>
> If you are interested, you could take the code from 3.8 and put it
> on squeaksource to be developed further as a standalone package.
> (i did not do that as nobody seemed to care about wordnet).
>
>       Marcus
>
> On 21.11.2005, at 23:47, Chris Nelson wrote:
>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I'm new to Squeak, so I'm going thru the environment and the browser 
>> and trying random stuff that interest me.
>>
>> Tried using WordNet to get a definition and Scamper gets redirected 
>> to a new URL. I don't think this is a bug, just something that needs 
>> to be updated and tested.
>>
>> The new URL is http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn and it appears 
>> form the page uses has different variables.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Chris Nelson, aka xradionut
>>
>>
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