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I’ve added a soundex section to the Lexicon application. Soundex is a way to index words based on the sound of the word. A simple phonetic algorithm is used to convert the word into a code that will match other words that may have similar sounds. This makes it easy to find words when the spelling is not known (e.g.

Installing JBoss 4.2 application server (AS) on fedora 7 is quite simple but there are a couple of potential gotchas and the documentation is not very clear, so here are some brief notes on how to get it running:

The openclipart.org site has not been properly functional for some months now. It current goes to a wiki indicating it will be back eventually. This is unfortunate since their public domain clipart distribution was quite useful. I am making a copy of it available here for anyone that wants to access the clipart from their last distribution.

Click here to access the openclipart folder.

Added commonality of words to the Lexicon. This allows for the determination of how relatively common a given word is. It is a count of the number of times the word has been seen in the reference texts. The publicly available reference texts are in the lexicon data reference.

I am building a database to examine words and language. This database merges many freely available data sources including GCIDE, moby, various open dictionaries, and gutenberg texts. The raw data is available here.