[Tutor] Fwd: thesaurus

[Pete Froslie]

oops.. I just realized I attached the wrong example for the API-- it was off
by number, this one works:

print urllib.urlopen('
http://words.bighugelabs.com/api/2/e413f24701aa30b8d441ca43a64317be/moving/').read(
)

The example makes sense to me and I can see how it is difficult to figure
out a natural language parser.. as it turns out, I don't mind it for this
project--gibberish is fine. Though I am now pretty curious about NL
parsers-- thanks for the example..

I will look at using the split method of strings..

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Rich Lovely <roadierich at googlemail.com>wrote:

> 2009/7/9 Pete Froslie <froslie at gmail.com>:
> > I see.. that makes sense. Kind of new with python -- sorry for that.
> >
> > after printing using this:
> >
> > print
> > urllib.urlopen('
> http://words.bighugelabs.com/api/2/e413f24801aa30b8d441ca43a64317be/moving/').read(<http://words.bighugelabs.com/api/2/e413f24801aa30b8d441ca43a64317be/moving/%27%29.read%28>
> )
> >
> > I'm getting a format like this returned:
> >
> > adjective|sim|streaming
> > adjective|sim|swirling
> > adjective|sim|tossing
> > adjective|sim|touching
> > adjective|sim|touring
> > adjective|sim|traveling
> > adjective|sim|tumbling
> >
> > I assume I need to clean this up by reading past  'Adjective|sim|' to
> > 'streaming' and then returning it from lookup()..
> > this will be happening in the following:
> >
> > urllib.urlopen('
> http://words.bighugelabs.com/api/2/e413f24801aa30b8d441ca43a64317be/moving/').read(SOMETHING<http://words.bighugelabs.com/api/2/e413f24801aa30b8d441ca43a64317be/moving/%27%29.read%28SOMETHING>
> > HERE)
> >
> >
> >
> I don't think there is any easy way of doing that.
>
> You would be better off using the split method of the strings, and
> ignoring the first parts for now.
>
> Have you considered what happens with the word set in the following
> sentance, about testing TV receivers:
>
> We've set the code number of each set to a reasonable value for this
> set of experiments.
>
> I can't get the api to work for me, but the way you're doing it at the
> moment, you'd end up with something like
>
> We've fixed the code number of each fixed to a reasonable value for
> this fixed of experiments.
>
> A contrived example, I know, but it makes the point.
>
> Unless, of course, this sort of gibberish is what you're after.
>
> Natural language parsers are one of the hardest things to create.
> Just look up the word "set" in a dictionary to see why.  Even if you
> did work out that the second "set" was a noun, is it "a radio or
> television receiver" or "a group or collection of things that belong
> together, resemble one another, or are usually found together"
>
> --
> Richard "Roadie Rich" Lovely, part of the JNP|UK Famile
> www.theJNP.com
>



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