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Topic: Dictionary access (Read 1251 times) |
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Manuel
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Dictionary access
« on: Feb 4th, 2005, 9:36pm » |
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Hello,
I'm decently able with processing and java but not a programming expert. I'd like to access a dictionary database and extract information from it according to word. IE, I'd like to input text, write a script that looks up each word in the dictionary, extract the part of speech it is from (ie, is it a noun, adjective, etc.?), and apply those values.
Is there any way I can use processing to access the dictionary in Microsoft Word to extract this kind of information? or an online dictionary? any starters on how i would begin to figure it out? thank you very much.
manuel
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fjen
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Re: Dictionary access
« Reply #1 on: Feb 5th, 2005, 3:49pm » |
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accessing ms-word depends on the platform you're on, i guess .. i think there might be a way to script that on pc, not sure about access (applescript) on mac.
anyway, an online-solution might be to use: http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict
since the applet can't access data on other servers (see here), except for it being signed, you'd have to look into a php-solution (or any other serverside-language) to channel the data. i'm pretty sure there are plenty dict-php-scripts out there, try googling ...
/F
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fry
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Re: Dictionary access
« Reply #2 on: Feb 5th, 2005, 4:13pm » |
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you might use the free dictionary from gutenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/660
(this is the first of several parts, do a search for the others)
lots of links for other free/online dictionaries here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary
you'd just download the dictionary, put the .txt file in the data folder of your sketch, and use loadStrings() to read in all the info.
good luck!
(edit: that gutenberg dictionary is quite large as it turns out.. way more detail than you need. but i'd check the other links to get something simpler)
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Manuel
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Re: Dictionary access
« Reply #3 on: Feb 7th, 2005, 10:27am » |
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great! ill give it a shot and report back.
take care,
manuel
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