Читать книгу Roget's Thesaurus - Peter Mark Roget - Страница 4

Occasional references to numbers starting with "@" are the embryonic beginnings of a reorganized version, mentioned below. A few comments are also included within curly brackets {}.

Last edit 12–20-91.

============================================

The following additional differences will be noted between this version and the original edition of the printed 1911 thesaurus:

(1) the space-saving abbreviations in the original, using hyphens to represent common words, prefixes or suffixes, have been expanded into the full words or phrases.

(2) the side-by-side format for words and their opposites has been

abandoned. Words are listed in order of their entry number.

(3) each main entry (1035 entries) has a pound sign "#" in front of

the number to facilitate computerized search.

(4) Greek words and phrases are transliterated and included between

brackets in the format <gr/greek word/gr>.

(5) where italics occurred in the original, italics are used in the

Microsoft Word format file. In the plain ASCII file, this

formatting is lost.

(6) in the original book, words which were obsolete (in 1911) were

marked with a dagger. In this version, those words are marked with a

vertical bar ("|").

Some of the words which were still current in 1911, but are no longer found in a current college-size dictionary (presently obsolete words), or which are no longer used in the specific indicated sense, have been marked with a bar followed by an exclamation point "|!". However, this marking process has just commenced, and only a small portion of the words which are now obsolete have been thus marked. Most though not all of the foreign-language phrases are now obsolete. The "obsolete" notation [obs3] indicates that the previous word (or some word in the previous phrase) is not recognized by the word processor's spelling checker, and also is either NOT in a modern college-sized dictionary, or is noted there as being "ARCHAIC".

(7) the approximate location of the bottom of each page in the original

1911 printed book is indicated by a comment of the form:

<—p. 23—>. To search for a page, note that there are two spaces

between the "p." and the page number.

(8) This file contains only the main body of the thesaurus. Neither

outline nor index are contained here. The outline with an overview

of the organization of the concepts is contained in a separate file,

"outline.doc", on the distribution disk.

This first edition of this supplemented 1911 thesaurus (June 1991) is very much less complete than the latest editions of commercial thesauri, and is probably not suitable for use as an adjunct to word-processing programs, but it has no proprietary claims attached to it by MICRA, Inc., and does not contain any material published commercially after 1911.

Future (copyrighted) versions of this thesaurus are planned, which will be reorganized in a hierarchical fashion to maximize the ability to take advantage of inheritance of semantic characteristics from higher categories. The objective is to create a database of words organized by semantic categories, suitable for use in natural-language understanding programs. This is a very small-scale project, which will not be competitive with large academic or commercial efforts such as the CYC project, but is intended to provide a convenient resource for experimentation in natural-language processing for individuals or small groups. Anyone who is currently engaged in or contemplating a similar thesaurus or dictionary project, who would be willing to collaborate on this project, is encouraged to contact us, so that unnecessary duplication of effort can be avoided. We would also appreciate being notified of typos, errors, or omissions in any version. Send inquiries or comments to:

Patrick Cassidy

MICRA Inc.

735 Belvidere Ave.

Plainfield, NJ 07062–2054

voice: (908) 668–5252

fax: (908) 668–5904

(If no one answers, please leave a message.)

==========================================================================

—>

%

THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES