Oracle text thesaurus management

Does anyone know if oracle supports a user interface for management of the thesuarus used in text search? ie browsing and editing this thesaurus? (I know indexes etc will need to be re-created to use the changed thesaurus) Anyone heard of another product that does this?

I don't think there's a UI available at the moment for modifying the thesaurus, but it's all held in a straightforward manner in tables, so it wouldn't be hard to build one. I know people have done so in the past.
You would NOT need to recreate indexes after loading / modifying the thesaurus. The thesaurus is used only at query time - it has no effect on index builds.

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    Oh, and if anybody wants the advice of an old-school UNIX geek,
    I'll be around ;-)
    Sean

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