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Umesha Gunasinghe
Umesha Gunasinghe

Reputation: 779

c# API to use wordnet-what is better?

I am doing a web based chattebot system and my problems are these.

Therefore What is the best C# API for wordnet?? Well what I want to do is get a sentence from a textbox and use it for synonym and spell check and there is both c# ASP and standalone app APIs on the wrodnet site.What is the best way?

Can I do both spell check and synonym check using wordnet and the other c# API??

I would be grateful if you could give me some solutions.

Thanks a lot.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7582

Answers (2)

Bryan Legend
Bryan Legend

Reputation: 6896

Of the API's listed here: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/related-projects/#.NET, Matt Gerber's ( http://ptl.sys.virginia.edu/ptl/members/matthew-gerber/software#WordNet_API ) is the best.

It's not a great API, but it works okay and it was a good start for what I needed.

I've also not tried Proxem's Antelope yet as it seemed more like a heavyweight app then a simple API. It may be much more robust though, and the parsing engine could be very useful for what you are doing.

Upvotes: 1

BrokenGlass
BrokenGlass

Reputation: 160922

If you can I would use the WPF built in spell checker, just add a reference to PresentationFramework in your ASP.NET project and you can programmatically create a WPF text box to use for spell check etc.

    List<string> getSuggestions(string text)
    {
        System.Windows.Controls.TextBox wpfTextBox = new System.Windows.Controls.TextBox();
        wpfTextBox.AcceptsReturn = true;
        wpfTextBox.AcceptsTab = true;
        wpfTextBox.SpellCheck.IsEnabled = true;
        wpfTextBox.Text = text;

        int index = 0;
        List<string> suggestions = new List<string>();

        while ((index = wpfTextBox.GetNextSpellingErrorCharacterIndex(index, System.Windows.Documents.LogicalDirection.Forward)) != -1)
        {
            string currentError = wpfTextBox.Text.Substring(index, wpfTextBox.GetSpellingErrorLength(index));
            suggestions.Add(currentError);

            foreach (string suggestion in wpfTextBox.GetSpellingError(index).Suggestions)
            {
                suggestions.Add(suggestion);
            }
        }
        return suggestions;
    }

Upvotes: 1

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