Regex Dictionary

#1

Post by cosmiccartel » Sat, Aug 11, 2018, 4:23 AM UTC

Re: Regex Dictionary

#2

Post by saagarjha » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 4:02 AM UTC

I guess this is pretty useful in a pinch, but I'd much rather just run grep on my local dictionary file (/usr/share/dict/words on macOS), so I'm not limited in the number of matches or the HTML interface. The one thing that I can't do is parts of speech matching, but that's easy to solve by finding a file online that labels words correctly.

Re: Regex Dictionary

#3

Post by shakna » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 7:10 AM UTC

I usually reach for Python's NLTK, but if performance was an issue, and accuracy less important, I can see myself using this.

Re: Regex Dictionary

#4

Post by colordrops » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 8:26 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #2

I guess this is pretty useful in a pinch, but I'd much rather just run grep on my local dictionary file (/usr/share/dict/words on macOS), so I'm not limited in the number of matches or the HTML interface. The one thing that I can't do is parts of speech matching, but that's easy to solve by finding a file online that labels words correctly.

> but that's easy to solve

That's handwaving over a lot more than just grepping a word file.

Re: Regex Dictionary

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Post by zouhair » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 10:43 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #2

I guess this is pretty useful in a pinch, but I'd much rather just run grep on my local dictionary file (/usr/share/dict/words on macOS), so I'm not limited in the number of matches or the HTML interface. The one thing that I can't do is parts of speech matching, but that's easy to solve by finding a file online that labels words correctly.

Can you grep only adverbs in your words file?

Re: Regex Dictionary

#6

Post by zouhair » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 10:55 AM UTC

Is there a way to access it by curl?

Re: Regex Dictionary

#7

Post by saagarjha » Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 7:08 PM UTC

zouhair wrote: post #5

saagarjha wrote: post #2

I guess this is pretty useful in a pinch, but I'd much rather just run grep on my local dictionary file (/usr/share/dict/words on macOS), so I'm not limited in the number of matches or the HTML interface. The one thing that I can't do is parts of speech matching, but that's easy to solve by finding a file online that labels words correctly.

Can you grep only adverbs in your words file?

> The one thing that I can't do is parts of speech matching, but that's easy to solve by finding a file online that labels words correctly.