Re: [libreoffice-users] Thesaurus is a dictionary of synonyms or real thesaurus

On 03/04/2013 04:12 AM, András Csányi wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I would like to ask some help regarding thesaurus in Libreoffice. I'm
> a librarian an whenever I hear that there is thesaurus in the
> Libreoffice I cannot decide whether this is a dictionary of the
> synonyms or a real thesaurus used by librarians.
>
> Here you can read about what the thesaurus is:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesaurus
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> András

Here is the definition of "thesaurus" according to your link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesaurus - "A thesaurus is a reference 
work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of 
meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms), in contrast to a 
dictionary, which contains definitions and pronunciations. "

The one[s] I have installed, with 4.0.0, shows similar terms.  For 
"belly" it shows several types of nouns and verb replacements for that 
word/term. I also know that there are adjectives and adverbs listed for 
some words. These may be listed by other thesaurus systems as synonym, 
derivatives, kind of, kinds, and parts.  I have even seen the term of 
"domain" listed under the term "relatives".

So, we have the synonyms and other "relatives".  As for antonyms, well I 
have not looked at a lot of words in the thesaurus system/file[s] I use, 
but we are dependent on others to create these for us.  Actually, my 
"book thesaurus" is a "Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus" and I do not see 
antonyms listed for the words I looked at.

As far as I know, most of the dictionary and thesaurus options are based 
on the WordNet and Hunspell format and "offerings".  We rely on these 
free  "offerings", and others, to be able to have language aids included 
in LibreOffice.

SO, please tell us what is used by a librarian/library as a reference 
thesaurus.  I would like to know. What do you mean by "real thesaurus 
used by librarians".

Also, I use an offline dictionary[definitions] and thesaurus called 
"Artha" that I use on my Ubuntu/Linux and Windows systems.  This is 
free, like LibreOffice.  I looked up many words using it, over the past 
few years, and I do not remember if it showed and antonyms.





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