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Hello all,
I am back with new requirement .... :D
Let's say I have a text box in my app. if the user enters a word, it should return the Synonyms/Thesaurus in a list box. How can i get the list of Synonyms/Thesaurus ?
I thought to use word libraries initially but the system user is going to use will not have any MS office applications.
please let me know the possible solution ....
Thanks
You need to have some sort of a library. Office/DB/text file/something from the net... :)
is there any dll available for that ?
Not that i know of. Do you know any website that offers that? Perhaps we could help you to somehow implement it to capture what website returns.
Nope. We cannot use the results from websites. The usage will be huge. so looking for offline solution.
Is there anyway to use the office dlls or any other alternatives ?
When I did something like this a few years ago, I made a web-spider that took all text from websites it visited, and inserted in a database unique words. Basically I built my own dictionary... I then took each word, and submited as a parameter to a dictionary website that returned the word description, and I record that in the database also.
In the end, I made myself a ~55000 word dictionary with word description in html.
Then I made a spell checking program using the SOUNDEX to get simmilar words when they are misspelled.
It took me a few weeks to do all this...
That's a huge task. can I see your program :DQuote:
Originally Posted by CVMichael
I looked through my old projects, but the only thing I found was the database... and that is like ~60 MBytes