Artha
Artha is a free cross-platform English thesaurus that works
completely off-line and uses WordNet as its database.
It has distinct features
like look up on a global hot key press, passive notifications of a
selected text's definitions, suggestions for misspelled words, etc.
Once launched, Artha sits on the system tray. The user can select text
on any window, and summon Artha by pressing the user-set hotkey
combination, which pops up Artha with the word looked up. Should you
want passive notifications without Artha's window popping up so that
your workflow is undisturbed, it can be done by enabling the
'Notifications' option. This results in a desktop notification (balloon
tip) of the selected word's prime definition from WordNet, from the
system tray, when the hotkey is pressed.
Artha is written from scratch in pure C using GTK+, with
WordNet as its database corpus. It may be used as an advanced
replacement
for the proprietary WordWeb.
Features include:
- Shows Synonyms, Antonyms, Derivatives, Pertainyms
(Related Noun/Verb), Attributes, Similar Terms, Domain Terms, Entails
(what verb entails doing), Causes (what a verb causes to), Hypernyms
(is a kind of), Hyponyms (kinds), Holonyms (is a part of) and Meronyms
(parts)
- WordNet - Artha harnesses the extensive & in-depth
database provided by WordNet. Unlike other dictionaries which goes
on-line for every single lookup, Artha works completely off-line;
thanks to WordNet for its excellent and cognitive database
- Hot key Lookup - When you press a pre-set hot key, after
selecting some text on any window, Artha pops up with the selection's
definitions looked-up
- Regular Expressions Search - When a word is vaguely known
I.e. the user is unclear of its spelling or when it's start/end alone
is known or when the number of characters is known; one can speed
up/narrow the search using regular expression to locate the particular
word they have in mind
- Notifications - Artha can show passive notifications
(balloon tips) instead of the application's window popping up, so that
you can continue what you were doing, uninterrupted. (like reading,
writing, etc.)
- Suggestions - When a misspelled word is queried for, Artha
gives you its near-match suggestions.
- Relative to Sense Mapping - Relative words like synonyms,
antonyms, etc. that are displayed are many. You might not know to which
sense/definition of a word does a relative map to. In Artha, when you
select a relative, its corresponding definition is scrolled to and
highlighted for easy comprehension.
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