[Fwd: Re: [seul-edu] New educational app--reference]

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

owner-seul-edu@seul.org wrote:

> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] New educational app--reference
> From: "Satyakam Goswami" <goswami@archeanit.com>
> To: <seul-edu@seul.org>
>
> hi,
>    here in Hyderabad/India there is a whole team working in this direction ,
> check http://www.iiit.net/madhavi/dict_srch.html, though the search options are
> not working as they are supposed to be . But definetly this is as an idea
> worked very well. I am cc'ing this message to the Director of the group so that
> he can update you on how he went ahead and did something like this.
>
> cheers
> S.Goswami
>
> > Would it be difficult to set this up as well as an
> > on-line dictionary and sample sentences. That might
> > be an interesting project for students. For example,
> > students who wrote a very good sentence for a word
> > could be nominated for an entry on the on-line dictionary.
> > For example, entering the word "recalcitrant" might give
> >
> > recalcitrant: definition, root, blah, blah blah
> > sample sentence...My recalcitrant teacher only gave back homework
> > after being yelled at. (Jenny Kuo, 6A, 9/10/2001)
> > Synonyms: difficult, problematic.....
> >
> > Douglas Loss wrote:
> >
> >> New on Freshmeat:
> >>
> >> http://aiken.clan11.com/aiksaurus/
> >>
> >> AikSaurus is a free thesaurus library released under the GNU
> >> General Public License. You may be interested in adding it to
> >> your favorite open source word processor, or using it to power
> >> an online thesaurus site.  AikSaurus was initially based on the
> >> Moby Thesaurus List, a public domain file provided by Project
> >> Gutenberg. Beginning with Version 0.06, AikSaurus incorporates
> >> Project Guttenberg's Moby Part Of Speech List in order to better group
> >> results.
>
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