On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Klaus D. Witzel
<klaus.witzel at cobss.com> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:44:57 +0100, you wrote:
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>> Hi Klaus,
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>> 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,
>>>
>>> - http://wordnet.princeton.edu/obtain
>>>
>>> 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+talk&i=1&h=100#c
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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