INTEGRATION: CWS ooo20031216 (1.1.2); FILE ADDED

2003/12/10 14:26:51 khendricks 1.1.2.1: Issue number:  None
Submitted by:  Kevin B. Hendricks
Reviewed by:   project owner (me)

adding in the new thesaurus implementation that removes all of the
old hardcoded limits and problems with the old thesaurus

Kevin

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+MyThes is a simple thesaurus that uses a structured
+text data file and an index file with binary search
+to lookup words and phrases and return information
+on part of speech, meanings, and synonyms
+
+MyThes was written to provide a thesaurus for the 
+OpenOffice.org project 
+
+The Main features of MyThes are:
+
+1. written in C++ to make it easier to interface with 
+   Pspell, OpenOffice, AbiWord, etc
+
+2. it is stateless, uses no static variables and
+   should be completely reentrant with no ifdefs  
+
+3. it compiles with -ansi and -pedantic and -Wall
+   with no warnings so it should be quite portable
+
+4. it uses a perl program to read the structured
+   text file and create the index needed for bianry
+   searching (see dictionaries/en_US/th_gen_idx.pl)
+
+5. it is very simple with *lots* of comments.
+   The main "smarts" are in the structure of the
+   text file that makes up the thesaurus data
+
+6. It comes with a ready-to-go structured thesaurus
+   data file for en_US extracted from the WordNet-2.0 data.
+   (see dictioanries/en_US/th_en_US_new.dat)
+
+   Please see WordNet_license.txt and WordNet_readme.txt
+   for more information on the very useful project!
+   (found in dictionaries/en_US/)
+
+7. The source code has a BSD license (and  no advertising clause)
+
+
+MyThes has the world's simplest Makefile and no 
+configure support. It does come with a simple example 
+program that looks up some words and returns meanings 
+and synonyms.
+
+To build it simply do the following:
+
+unzip mythes.zip
+cd mythes
+make
+
+To run the example program:
+./example th_en_US_new.idx th_en_US_new.dat checkme.lst
+
+Please play around with it and let me know
+what you think.
+
+Thanks,
+
+Kevin Hendricks
+kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca
+