Monday, April 26, 2004
WordNetCE 0.995 Freeware Pocket PC Dictionary/Thesaurus Released
Posted by Jonathon Watkins in "SOFTWARE" @ 12:00 AM
"The goal of my project is to make a high quality, free dictionary/thesaurus for the Pocket PC platform. To date there is nothing out there that's both free and high quality."
That pretty much sums up Troy Simpson attribute towards WordNetCE. It's a program he created to provide a free dictionary/thesaurus solution with modern terms and a very large wordbase of over 144,000 words. The program is based on the popular desktop version of WordNet created by Princeton University which is free to modify and distribute. The dictionary is downloaded separately from Princeton and it's recommended to copy it to a storage card folder due to its large size (~35MB). You can get it here.
I installed it just now and I have to say I'm impressed with the dictionary. It has extensive, clear definitions and seems to cover most words I can think of. I was apprehensive about using a dictionary with US spelling, but what do you know, it's got UK spelling as well! For example, both Aluminium and Aluminum were listed together, as well as Colour and Color. Nice, very nice in fact. The program interface was simple, yet powerful enough to do exactly what I wanted. It's a keeper!
WordNetCE requires Pocket PC 2002 with the compact .Net Framework OR Windows Mobile 2003. Whilst WordNetCE is free, the author asks that small donations be made (particularly if it's used in any type of organisation), so that the website can be kept online and more quality freeware can be produced. You know the drill guys. 8)
That pretty much sums up Troy Simpson attribute towards WordNetCE. It's a program he created to provide a free dictionary/thesaurus solution with modern terms and a very large wordbase of over 144,000 words. The program is based on the popular desktop version of WordNet created by Princeton University which is free to modify and distribute. The dictionary is downloaded separately from Princeton and it's recommended to copy it to a storage card folder due to its large size (~35MB). You can get it here.
I installed it just now and I have to say I'm impressed with the dictionary. It has extensive, clear definitions and seems to cover most words I can think of. I was apprehensive about using a dictionary with US spelling, but what do you know, it's got UK spelling as well! For example, both Aluminium and Aluminum were listed together, as well as Colour and Color. Nice, very nice in fact. The program interface was simple, yet powerful enough to do exactly what I wanted. It's a keeper!
WordNetCE requires Pocket PC 2002 with the compact .Net Framework OR Windows Mobile 2003. Whilst WordNetCE is free, the author asks that small donations be made (particularly if it's used in any type of organisation), so that the website can be kept online and more quality freeware can be produced. You know the drill guys. 8)
