On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Klaus D. Witzel klaus.witzel@cobss.com wrote:
Hi Steve,
on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:44:57 +0100, you wrote:
Hi Klaus,
This is a great idea! I'll be glad to test anything you create.
:)
Unfortunately I don't have any time for development.
Do you happen to know Norberto, he emailed that he made an object model in Squeak some time ago. Perhaps he can find it and send it to me over the weekend.
Don't know Norberto. I hope he sends you an object model. Maybe you're different but the blank sheet of paper is the hardest part of creating anything for me.
P.S. suggestions for a WordNet browser GUI in Squeak, anybody ?
Typeahead for search, mouseover for everything in the WN archive, and an easy-to-extend model. I'm interested in poetry so one thing I've thought about is adding some of poetry's technical details to a word's information---syllables, stresses, rhymes, etc. With the right kind of interface, I could enter a poem I like and enter (some or all of) the information along the way, or just after. Half an hour at a time.
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
Hi list,
has anyone started with/plans for a browser for a WordNet lexical db in Smalltalk? I checked their Prolog formatted files,
actually read them into a Squeak .image; they need only a handful of memory MB (7.5, strings as yet not symbolized) plus less than 10MB of disk space if gloss texts would be stored in the .changes file.
Also, if anyone already has (or had) ideas for a GUI for a WordNet browser in Squeak please let me know (!) I cannot say I like their basic Web interface (it has nothing that a Smalltalk browser offers)
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?o0=1&o1=1&r=1&s=small+ta...
and think that can be done better for local use, for example in class rooms (and of course when authoring documentation for Squeak ;) but, unlikely for the OLPC because of the footprint.
Thanks in advance for your feedback.
/Klaus
-- "If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it". Albert Einstein
-- "If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it". Albert Einstein