Briefly, http://www.isi.edu/~hdaume/HWordNet/ HWordNet is a Haskell binding to the WordNet database. You will actually need to have WordNet installed to use the Haskell interface, but you won't need any of the source (the Haskell interface is 100% pure Haskell; no crummy FFI bindings here!). However, it does of course use the WordNet database files, so you'll need those. See http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ for more about WordNet This interface doesn't cover all of WordNet -- for instance, it doesn't yet do morphology. This will be available in a release soon. Also, it does use implicit parameters, so you've got to have GHC or Hugs or some other compiler that supports those. - Hal -- Hal Daume III | hdaume@isi.edu "Arrest this man, he talks in maths." | www.isi.edu/~hdaume