a thesaurus of words, it contains english by default but it can be used with your own data file
npm install thesaurusa thesaurus of any languages using LibreOffice's dictionaries
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.
``Javascript
var thesaurus = require("thesaurus");
// basically returns a list of similar words
console.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' ]
`
expect a th_en_US_new.dat that you can get at http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/MyThes-1.zip
`Javascript
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 dictionary
thesaurus.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")
``