Topic map conversion of Moby Thesaurus II

Revision as of 12:45, 12 July 2011

Moby Thesaurus II is a large English thesaurus containing 30260 root words and over 2,5 million synonyms. Moby Thesaurus II has been collected by Grady Ward and has been public domain since 1996. Moby Thesaurus II is part of a larger Moby Project. Topic map conversion of the Moby Thesaurus II was created with Wandora's Moby thesaurus extractor.

Download topic map conversion of Moby Thesaurus II

Topic map conversion of Moby Thesaurus II is available as

• Wandora project file (24M)
• XTM 2.0 topic map file (26M, zip package)

First can be used in Wandora application while latter should be usable in any Topic Maps application capable to read XTM serializations. As the topic map conversion is relatively large, you need to give Wandora application at least 4G of memory to open the topic map successfully. If you are importing the topic map in other Topic Maps applications, consult application documentation to ensure it can read large topic map serializations.

History

• 2011-07-12, Initial version.

Conversion details and metrics

Each word in Moby thesaurus is converted to a topic. Topic's base name is the word it self. Topic's subject identifier template is http://www.wandora.org/moby/word where ending word is replaced with a slightly cleaned word. The only association type used in topic map is moby-related-words with a subject identifier http://www.wandora.org/moby/schema/related-words. Root word role is word-1 with subject identifier http://www.wandora.org/moby/schema/word1. Related word role is word-2 with subject identifier http://www.wandora.org/moby/schema/word2.

Topic map conversion of Moby Thesaurus II has

• 103308 topics
• 2520086 associations
• 103308 base names
• 103308 identifiers
• 0 subject locators
• 0 occurrences
• 0 topic classes
• 1 distinct types of associations
• 2 distinct roles in associations
• 103305 Number of distinct players in associations

Average coefficient for topic map conversion of Moby Thesaurus II is 0.66491885

Layer connection statistics are shown below.

Topic map conversion of Moby Thesaurus II has no connecting topics nor relations to Wandora's default ontology. As a consequence, Wandora views no thesaurus topics after the topic map has been imported to Wandora. User has to search thesaurus topics explicitly with Finder. Next screen capture views Wandora after user has searched for word people, and user has opened topic people by double clicking the search result row. Association table views 335 associations where topic people is either a root word and a related word.

License

Topic map conversion of Moby Thesaurus II is licensed as public domain.