Parse::GutenbergRoget 0.021

Parse::GutenbergRoget is a Perl module that can parse Project Gutenberg's Roget's Thesaurus.

SYNOPSIS

use Parse::GutenbergRoget

my %section = parse_roget("./roget15a.txt");

print $section{1}[0][0]{text}; # existence

A Roget's Thesaurus is more than the simple synonym/antonym finder included in many dictionary sets. It organizes words into semantically realted categories, so that words with related meanings can be found in proximity to one another, with the level of proximity indicating the level of similarity.

Project Gutenberg has produced an etext of the 1911 edition of Roget's Thesaurus, and later began to revise it, in 1991. While it's not the best Roget-style thesaurus available, it's the best public domain electronic thesaurus datasource I've found.

This module parses the file's contents into a Perl data structure, which can then be stored in systems for searching and browsing it. This module does not implement those systems.

The code is not complete. This means that everything that can be parsed is not yet being parsed. It's important to realize that not everything is going to be parseable. There are too many typos and broken rules which, due to the lousy nature of the rules, create ambiguity. For a description of these rules see "RULES" below.

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· Perl