Shared Dictionary

Sharing a dictionary between applications on a PC

There is no integrated dictionary of our natural language in our Operating Systems that is shared between different applications. This train attemeps to find, define and implement such a shared dictionary.

Original Usenet post
Purpose: to facilitate the growth of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and relivnt Information Retrieval (IR) in our computers.
Ideas for starting systems:

WordNet
CL Research
Wordsmyth

There may be a license available in the near future that would allow unrestricted distribution of a basic dictionary-thesaurus, as long as there is attribution given. If you'd like, I can give you a research license now.

Dr. Robert Parks

Dictionary links

Wordsmyth: Related Resources
yourDictionary.com