Overview of commercial and free thesauri

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This article provides an overview of different thesauri, which are available either commercially or for free. Whether you are doing a quick search in your web browser or via the command line, there is a thesaurus for everybody out there.

Infos

  1. "Cluster-Based Web Searches" by Frank Hofmann, Linux Intern 01/2013, Data Becker Verlag, 2013
  2. Deutsche National Bibliothek – Subject Authority File: http://www.dnb.de/EN/Standardisierung/standardisierung_node.html
  3. Library of Congress Subject Headings: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html
  4. Thesaurus Linguae Latinae: http://www.thesaurus.badw.de/english/
  5. Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: http://www.tlg.uci.edu
  6. UNESCO Thesaurus: http://databases.unesco.org/thesaurus/
  7. European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies: http://www.fiv-iblk.de/information/information_thesaurus.htm
  8. Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/index.html
  9. KThesaurus (Debian package): https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/kthesaurus
  10. OpenThesaurus for LibreOffice (Debian package): https://packages.debian.org/ca/source/wheezy/openthesaurus
  11. Lexikon.ch: http://www.lexikon.ch (in German)
  12. Woxikon: http://www.woxikon.com/
  13. Leo: http://www.leo.org/index_en.html
  14. Beolingus/Dict: http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/
  15. French National Center for Textual and Lexical Resources: http://www.cnrtl.fr (in French)
  16. OpenThesaurus: http://www.openthesaurus.de (in German)
  17. WordNet: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/
  18. Macmillan Dictionary: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/tools/aboutapi.html
  19. Merriam-Webster: http://www.merriam-webster.com/netdict.htm
  20. Cambridge Dictionaries Online: http://dictionary-api.cambridge.org/
  21. Pons: http://www.pons.com/specials/api
  22. Visual Thesaurus: http://www.visualthesaurus.com
  23. Wordnik: http://developer.wordnik.com
  24. WordNet (Ubuntu package): http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/wordnet
  25. WordNet-QueryData Perl module: http://search.cpan.org/~jrennie/WordNet-QueryData/
  26. Python Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK): http://www.nltk.org
  27. GoldenDict: http://goldendict.org
  28. WebKit-Framework: http://www.webkit.org
  29. Wiktionary: https://www.wiktionary.org/
  30. Wiktionary API: http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php

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