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From: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 20:29:11 -0400
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David,    (01)

I was comparing the Visual Thesaurus display to the displays you
can get from the FCA software on the web (which you can download
for free, if you want it on your desk top.    (02)

> Clarification of the components in play here.
>
> WordNet is the "database"  ...open source from 
>Princetonhttp://wordnet.princeton.edu/
>
> VisualThesaurus is a $40 desktop "dictionary/thesaurus" using WordNet + the 
>ThinkMap API/display software product.
>
> VisualThesaurus is a nifty display of really ugly WordNet content.    (03)

Please do your own comparison, by typing any number of words
to both of the following sites:    (04)

     http://www.ketlab.org.uk/wordnet.html    (05)

     http://www.ketlab.org.uk/roget.html    (06)

After you pick the two words that give you the most interesting
lattices, try VisualThesaurus to get your two free choices.    (07)

Let us know which words you chose and your evaluation of VT
compared to the lattices generated by FCA.    (08)

John    (09)


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