Thesaurus
a thesaurus of any languages using LibreOffice's dictionaries
License
99.9999% of this library being made of words from MyThes, the open-office thesaurus, see the LICENSE.txt at the root of the project.
Usage
Basic usage
var thesaurus = require("thesaurus"); // basically returns a list of similar wordsconsole.log(thesaurus.find("structuralism"));[ 'structural linguistics', 'linguistics', 'structural anthropology', 'theory', 'structural sociology' ] // please be aware that all meanings are merged into the same list.// this is not a semantic thesaurus.console.log(thesaurus.find("constitutional"));[ 'law', 'property', 'constitutional', 'built-in', 'inbuilt', 'inherent', 'integral', 'intrinsic', 'intrinsical', 'constituent', 'constitutive', 'organic', 'essential', 'walk' ]
Import an OpenOffice thesaurus file
expect a th_en_US_new.dat that you can get at http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/MyThes-1.zip
var thesaurus = require("thesaurus"); // import the file, add (or update) the words. This function extends the preloaded English Thesaurus Dictionary. For using the loaded one only, use "replace" function instead.var updated_thesaurus = thesaurus.load("./th_en_US_new.dat"); // TODO you can't save it yet.. but you can export the resulting JSON using:console.log(updated_thesaurus.toJson()); // to clear the internal dictionarythesaurus.reset() // to replace the loaded dictionary by one loaded from the given thesaurus dat file.(reset and load) thesaurus.replace("./th_en_US_new.dat")