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Probably best to write an intermediary script that rips the info from dictionary.com or wherever? Would be pretty simple. </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=32452.3&return_msg=32452.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="32452.3"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a32452_4"></a><div class="message" id="message_32452_4"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)<span class="message_time">20 May 2007 23:05</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 20 May 2007 23:10"></span></span> <span class="message_count">4 of 21</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=32452.4">32452.4</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=32452.3#a32452_3" target="_self">32452.3</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Yeah, but also slower doing that, and might get them being angry at me.<br /> <br /> It seems that most places use a downloaded copy of WordNet, which requires converting one of the existing interfaces to something usable.<br /> Was hoping for something I could just drop in. <span class="emoticon e_sad" title=":("><span class="e__">:(</span></span> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=32452.4&return_msg=32452.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="32452.4"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a32452_5"></a><div class="message" id="message_32452_5"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">20 May 2007 23:11</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 20 May 2007 23:13"></span></span> <span class="message_count">5 of 21</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=32452.5">32452.5</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=32452.3#a32452_4" target="_self">32452.4</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Slower but... 20 mins work. I bet you've spent longer than that looking already. Aye though, depends what it's for. If it's going to get more than a few hundred hits a week then they'd get angry I guess. </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=32452.5&return_msg=32452.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="32452.5"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a32452_6"></a><div class="message" id="message_32452_6"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)<span class="message_time">20 May 2007 23:18</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 20 May 2007 23:19"></span></span> <span class="message_count">6 of 21</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=32452.6">32452.6</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=32452.3#a32452_5" target="_self">32452.5</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I meant slower to do the actual ripping - having to traverse the pages and regex the results and remove the duplicates because the damned thing groups stuff.<br /> <br /> No idea how many hits at the moment - has potential to turn into a big thing, but it likely wont. </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=32452.6&return_msg=32452.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="32452.6"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a32452_7"></a><div class="message" id="message_32452_7"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">20 May 2007 23:23</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 20 May 2007 23:44"></span></span> <span class="message_count">7 of 21</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=32452.7">32452.7</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=32452.3#a32452_6" target="_self">32452.6</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Hmmm, shouldn't be too slow in that way. I mean, a touch slower than a local database obviously but not prohibitively so, so long as dic.com's running owreet. But... yeah, hassle. What's wordnet? </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=32452.7&return_msg=32452.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="32452.7"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a32452_8"></a><div class="message" id="message_32452_8"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)<span class="message_time">20 May 2007 23:53</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 20 May 2007 23:55"></span></span> <span class="message_count">8 of 21</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=32452.8">32452.8</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=32452.3#a32452_7" target="_self">32452.7</a></div> <div class="message_body"> <div class="quotetext" id="quote"><b>quote: </b></div><div class="quote">WordNetÂ® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller.</div><br /> <br /> <a href="http://wordnet.princeton.edu">http://wordnet.princeton.edu</a>/<br /> <br /> I downloaded the files but they're not in as straight-forward a format as I'd have liked, so I threw together a quick dic.com ripper and it actually aint that bad - seven regexes plus a duplicate remover and it averages fifteen milliseconds to bring back an array of results, which is fine.<br /> Would be nice to cut down the 1.5 seconds to download the data though - means the page takes three seconds to load. <span class="emoticon e_sad" title=":("><span class="e__">:(</span></span> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=32452.8&return_msg=32452.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="32452.8"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a32452_9"></a><div class="message" id="message_32452_9"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">20 May 2007 23:56</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 20 May 2007 23:59"></span></span> <span class="message_count">9 of 21</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=32452.9">32452.9</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=32452.3#a32452_8" target="_self">32452.8</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Does the wordnet thing include synonyms and that? I should look really. Looks fun to play with does that. </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=32452.9&return_msg=32452.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="32452.9"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a32452_10"></a><div class="message" id="message_32452_10"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)<span class="message_time">21 May 2007 00:01</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 May 2007 00:02"></span></span> <span class="message_count">10 of 21</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=32452.10">32452.10</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=32452.3#a32452_9" target="_self">32452.9</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Yup.<br /> <br /> Dunno if you use OpenOffice, but that apparently uses WordNet for it's dic/thesaurus stuff. </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=32452.10&return_msg=32452.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="32452.10"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a32452_11"></a><div class="message" id="message_32452_11"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">21 May 2007 00:02</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 May 2007 00:05"></span></span> <span class="message_count">11 of 21</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=32452.11">32452.11</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=32452.3#a32452_10" target="_self">32452.10</a></div> <div class="message_body"> What format is it in? I'm not just being lazy, I am downloading it but 17mb is an hour for me. </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=32452.11&return_msg=32452.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="32452.11"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a32452_12"></a><div class="message" id="message_32452_12"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)<span class="message_time">21 May 2007 00:09</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 21 May 2007 00:09"></span></span> <span class="message_count">12 of 21</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=32452.12">32452.12</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=32452.3#a32452_11" target="_self">32452.11</a></div> <div class="message_body"> An ASCII DB thingy - here's a bit of the adjective data file:<br /> <div class="quotetext" id="code-"><b> code:</b></div><pre class="code">00001740 00 a 01 able 0 005 = 05200169 n 0000 = 05616246 n 0000 + 05616246 n 0101 + 05200169 n 0101 ! 00002098 a 0101 | (usually followed by `to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something; "able to swim"; "she was able to program her computer"; "we were at last able to buy a car"; "able to get a grant for the project" 00002098 00 a 01 unable 0 002 = 05200169 n 0000 ! 00001740 a 0101 | (usually followed by `to') not having the necessary means or skill or know-how; "unable to get to town without a car"; "unable to obtain funds" 00002312 00 a 02 abaxial 0 dorsal 4 002 ;c 06037666 n 0000 ! 00002527 a 0101 | facing away from the axis of an organ or organism; "the abaxial surface of a leaf is the underside or side facing away from the stem" 00002527 00 a 02 adaxial 0 ventral 4 002 ;c 06037666 n 0000 ! 00002312 a 0101 | nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism; "the upper side of a leaf is known as the adaxial surface" 00002730 00 a 01 acroscopic 0 002 ;c 06066555 n 0000 ! 00002843 a 0101 | facing or on the side toward the apex 00002843 00 a 01 basiscopic 0 002 ;c 06066555 n 0000 ! 00002730 a 0101 | facing or on the side toward the base 00002956 00 a 02 abducent 0 abducting 0 002 ;c 06080522 n 0000 ! 00003131 a 0101 | especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part 00003131 00 a 03 adducent 0 adductive 0 adducting 0 003 ;c 06080522 n 0000 + 01449236 v 0201 ! 00002956 a 0101 | especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part 00003356 00 a 01 nascent 0 005 + 07320302 n 0103 ! 00003939 a 0101 & 00003553 a 0000 & 00003700 a 0000 & 00003829 a 0000 | being born or beginning; "the nascent chicks"; "a nascent insurgency" 00003553 00 s 02 emergent 0 emerging 0 003 & 00003356 a 0000 + 02625016 v 0102 + 00050693 n 0101 | coming into existence; "an emergent republic" 00003700 00 s 01 dissilient 0 002 & 00003356 a 0000 + 07434782 n 0101 | bursting open with force, as do some ripe seed vessels 00003829 00 s 01 parturient 0 002 & 00003356 a 0000 + 14048441 n 0101 | giving birth; "a parturient heifer" 00003939 00 a 01 dying 0 003 ! 00003356 a 0101 & 00004171 a 0000 & 00004296 a 0000 | in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be; "a dying man"; "his dying wish"; "a dying fire"; "a dying civilization" 00004171 00 s 01 moribund 0 001 & 00003939 a 0000 | being on the point of death; breathing your last; "a moribund patient"</pre> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=32452.12&return_msg=32452.3" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="32452.12"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="message_page_footer"> <ul> <li class="right_col"><form accept-charset="utf-8" method="get" action="lmessages.php" target="_self"><input type="hidden" name="webtag" id="webtag" class="bhinputtext" value="DEFAULT" dir="ltr" /><input type="hidden" name="msg" id="msg" class="bhinputtext" value="32452.13" dir="ltr" /><input type="submit" name="submit" id="keep_reading" value="Keep reading…" class="button" /></form></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body>