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January 2008Language LinksPeter Mark Roget was born January 18, 1779. Of the many (various, myriad) ways a person might mark the birth of the man whose name is associated with the thesaurus, exploring online versions and technological spin-offs of Roget's work seems just about right. The ARTFL Project (co-sponsored by the University of Chicago) has created a searchable version of the 1911 version of Roget's Thesaurus. Wordnet is a project of Princeton University, billed as its "lexical database for the English language." Wordnet groups words into sets of cognitive synonyms that can then be searched by semantic or lexical relations. Sound a bit complicated? That database has spun off into the Lexical Freenet, a connected thesaurus that gives users the ability to search for relationships between words, concepts, and people. |