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Re: Packaging a *LARGE* dictionary



On Wed, 29 Oct 1997 ioannis@flinet.com wrote:

>     Let me affirm, assert, declare, express, submit, and convey my plan
>  to package "WordNet" for main.  WordNet is a twenty-five-megabyte
>  modern lexical reference system with 100,000 interrelated word sets --
>  approximately, resembling more a thesaurus than a dictionary, though
>  Princeton University insists on the opposite, in that, it is a 
>  dictionary, not a thesaurus.

If it contains usefull scripts/apps to browse/search the dictionary, I
agree it's a good tool (mostly for non native english speakers ;).

However, if it's just a *LARGE* file without any other facilities, I see
no reason to package it.  (Following, this reasoning the Debian
distribution would soon become a superset of the Gutemberg project;)

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