Languator

Aims to help with English synonyms, derived words, autosuggestion and spelling easily and efficiently.

Features

Autosuggests words as you type.
Offers synonyms for every word you type.
Checks spelling.
Helps with irregular verbs.
Shows derived words.
Lists the prepositions for phrasal verbs.

But Whyyyy

I created the tool in May 2011 as a programming part of my bachelor's thesis.

And how?

Firstly, there was some data mining needed to do. I took wiktionary xml source and grabbed all the useful information I could and saved it to PostgreSQL database. Then I ran the parsing script again with wikipedia xml source to get the frequency of each word to be able to provide most relevant suggesting.
Secondly, I used JettyServer as a HTTP Server for exposing couple REST APIs to serve data from the database, Hunspell spell checker and WordNet lexical database.

List of APIs:
- /api/suggest - PostgreSQL database with datamined words
- /api/synonyms - WordNet lexical database
- /api/derivedwords - PostgreSQL database with datamined words
- /api/misspelled - Hunspell spell checker
- /api/irregularverbs - PostgreSQL database with contents grabbed from wiktionary irregular verbs
The frontend JavaScript tool was the last thing remaining to implement. I took advantage of jQuery framework and it's UI plugins.

Is it awesome?

Of course. Give it a try!

Marek Polcar, 2011, cilf.cz

The source code is licensed under New BSD License.