AW: [topicmapmail] Plumb Visual Thesaurus Redesigned

Rath, Holger (empolis DA) Holger.Rath@empolis.com
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:37:18 +0100


Thomas B. Passin wrote:
> [Holger, from a different post in this thread]
> 
> > It looks like that WordNet from Princeton Univ.
> > is the source for this. So the Plumb Design
> > people "just" adopted their visualization tool
> > to the data source. BTW: WordNet can be easily
> > converted into XTM. Maybe someone from the TM
> > community has already done that?
> 
> I thought it was probably Wordnet, too.  Wordnet has been converted to
> RDF
> form (I forget by who, I am sorry to say), so any of you have who has an
> RDF-to-topic map tool can have fun here.

WordNet-RDF conversion was done by Stefan Decker, formerly at
Stanford now somewhere in San Diego, but still in the ontology/RDF
business.

--Holger