Show Synonyms/Thesaurus for the given word

[csKanna]

Hello all,

I am back with new requirement ....

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

[gavio]

You need to have some sort of a library. Office/DB/text file/something from the net...

[csKanna]

is there any dll available for that ?

[gavio]

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.

[csKanna]

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 ?

[CVMichael]

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...

[csKanna]

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

[CVMichael]

I looked through my old projects, but the only thing I found was the database... and that is like ~60 MBytes