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NAME

       Artha - An cross-platform thesaurus based on WordNet

DESCRIPTION

       Artha is an open thesaurus based on the WordNet database, created with simplicity in mind.
       Once executed, Artha monitors for a user preset global hotkey combination. When  the  user
       selects  some  text  in  any window, and presses this hotkey combo, Artha looks up WordNet
       thesaurus for the selected text and pops-up with the results.

       When executed for the first time Artha tries to register a hotkey  automatically,  in  the
       order,  Ctrl + Alt + [W or A or T or Q]. You can view/change it via the 'Hotkey' button in
       the toolbar. It can also be disabled.

DEFINITIONS

       Definitions are categorized based on the PoS (Part of Speech - Noun, Verb,  Adjective  and
       Adverb).  Apart  from  showing  the  definitions/senses  of  a  searched string with usage
       examples, Artha also shows  a  word's  relatives  like  Synonyms,  Antonyms,  Derivatives,
       Pertainyms  (Related  noun/verb),  Attributes, Similar Terms, Domain/Domain Terms, Causes,
       Entails, Hypernyms (is a kind of), Hyponyms (Kinds), Holonyms (is  a  part  of),  Meronyms
       (Parts).

   SENSES AND RELATIVES
       A   word   can  have  more  then  one  sense  i.e.  it  can  convey  more  than  a  single
       meaning/definition. Relative words are words that are related to one or more senses of the
       searched  word, by a relationship like Synonym, Derivative, etc. To know which all sense a
       relative is related to, just select the it,  the  corresponding  senses  it  maps  to  are
       highlighted.  As  per  WordNet,  depending  on  the  number of senses a word has (polysemy
       count), it's familiarity is  determined.  It  gets  displayed  next  to  the  PoS  in  the
       definition  area.  There  are  7 types: extremely rare, very rare, rare, uncommon, common,
       familiar, very familiar and extremely familiar.

MODES

       Artha has 2 modes. Simple and Detailed. Artha enters Detailed  mode  when  the  'Detailed'
       button  in the toolbar is pressed. When toggled again, it returns back to simple mode. For
       relatives like Antonyms, Pertainyms, Hypernyms, Hyponyms,  Holonyms  and  Meronyms,  where
       more  than one level of relatives may be present, is showed in a tree fashion, in detailed
       mode. If in simple mode, only one level of relatives are shown even when more  levels  are
       present.  E.g.  'rich'  has  'poor'  and 'lean' alone as antonyms in simple mode. While in
       detailed mode, 'poor' further infers broke, skint, etc. which are  shown  as  children  of
       'poor'.

REGULAR EXPRESSIONS BASED SEARCH

       Regular  expressions can be used to search for a term when you vaguely know it and want to
       locate it in the thesaurus. Artha's regular expression  pattern  closely  follows  Wildmat
       syntax by Rich Salz owing to its simplicity.

              * (wildcard) matches any number of (including 0) unknown characters

              ? (joker) matches one unknown character

              [...] (range) matches one unknown character within the range specified

              {m, n} (limits) upper & lower limits of the number of characters in a range

              [^...]  (not  in  the  range)  matches  one  unknown character NOT within the range
              specified

              EXAMPLES:

              Expr. `cro*p` means the term you want to corner starts with `cro` and ends with `p`
              while  the  number  of characters in between are unknown. It fetches crop, crop up,
              croup, crock up and crow step.

              Expr. `*chester` means the searched word ends with a `chester` while the  beginning
              and  its  number characters are unknown. It fetches chester, manchester, rochester,
              winchester and toy manchester.

              Expr. `can????r` means the term sought starts with `can` and ends  with  `r`  while
              you  are  sure that there are 5 unknown characters in between.  It fetches canister
              and cannular.

              Expr. `andre*[x|y|z]` means the word searched for starts with andre and  ends  with
              either  an x or y or z, and there could be any number of terms in betweem these. It
              fetches andre malraux, andrei tarkovsky, andres martinez, etc.

              Expr. `a[c|d|e]{2,}` means the word looked for starts with a  and  then  there  are
              minimum  2  or  more occurances of c, d or e. It fetches acc, accede, ace, add, ade
              and aec.

OPTIONS

       Look-ups made in Artha are stored permanently as a per-user setting, and can be saved  via
       the  popup  menu of the search bar or can be cleared too.  Other options like showing term
       familiarity based on polysemy count, display of status icon, etc. can be changed  via  the
       Options window.

NOTIFICATIONS

       Should  the  user  prefer  passive  desktop  notifications (balloon tips), rather than the
       application popping up with the definitions, it can be  done  by  enabling  Notifications.
       This  is done via the Notify tool button or by right-clicking on Artha's system tray icon,
       and tick off the 'Notifications' check box in the menu. When  notifications  are  enabled,
       and  the user selects text in a window and presses the hotkey combo, Artha takes the prime
       definition of that  term  from  WordNet  and  shows  that  definition  as  a  system  tray
       notification.

       Note:   For   the   notifications   feature   to   be  present,  notify  library's  binary
       (libnotify.so.1) should be available on your system. If not, Artha  will  not  expose  the
       feature  at  all.  Also  the notification-daemon should installed for the notifications to
       show up.

SUGGESTIONS

       Suggestions is a feature that gives out possible near matches when a  misspelled  word  is
       searched   for.   To  have  this  feature,  your  system  should  have  libenchant  binary
       (libenchant.so.1) installed and an English dict file for the spell engine to refer (locale
       doesn't matter).

AVAILABILITY

       Artha  has a World Wide Web site at http://artha.sourceforge.net. From this web site users
       can  know  more  about  the  Artha  project  and  also  download  its  source  and  binary
       distributions for various distros.

AUTHOR

       Sundaram Ramaswamy <legends2k@yahoo.com>