Have you ever sat around with your freinds on a hot Sunday afternoon sipping tea commenting on how great it would be if you had a free electronic thesaurus to use ?
Use for what your friends say; why to automagically parse and rewrite my affiliate feeds text you reply. Then you lament how you never found a good one and while your sure you can write the tool to parse the text getting the thesaurus is the hardest part.
Well, lament no more.
I have found a free thesaurus served to you visa via Project Gutenberg. Now I am off to write a tool to rewrite all that cruddy affiliate feed text to keep me from getting hit with a duplicate text filter.
Some thoughts on what features my word substitution program will need ( to be ammended as I think of more ):
- Symantec analysis to determine the intended meaning of the orignal word to make sure the proper synonym is pulled.
- Word expansion feature when its appropriate
I’ll be posting light while I work on this most likely.
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| Filed under: Content Creation, General — Scott @ September 6, 2005 10:07 am |
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Hello there. Have been your reader for a long time. 5star info always.
Thanks for the url for the thesauruos. Had been looking for this one!
Have you tried it with your cycle class? Is it fast?
Do you happend to know any Synomyms file? ;)
Sorry, me again. How do you pretend to use it?
It’s just a bunch of words separated by comas?
Words in the neighbour seems related. Is that it?
Hi Kanton
Thank you for the kind words :)
The dictionary has a synonyms file with a list of equivelant words. I haven’t written the script yet to use it but you need to do the following if you write one.
1. Look up list of equivelent words for the word you trying to change
2. Look only at synonyms that are the same type of word ( nouns, verbs, etc )
3. Choose a synonym and change for usage ( singular, plural )
And yes its just a list of words all wquivelents are on a single line seperated by spaces I believe.
I hope that helps :)