SynonymScrapper

Synonym Scrapper is a ruby gem that obtains spanish synoynms from various sources. Currently three synonym sources are supported:

• Datamuse API (link)
• Educalingo dictionary (link)
• Natural Language Toolkit (link)

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'synonym_scrapper'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install synonym_scrapper

First you need to have Python3 installed on the machine that will use this gem. Then you need to install NLTK:

$ pip3 install nltk

And download its data through python (you can run these through the python interpreter):

import nltk
nltk.download()

From the packages available in NLTK you'll need to download omw (Open Multilingual Wordnet).

To use this gem you first need to require it:

require 'synonym_scrapper'

Then you need to create a SynonymScrapper instance and request synonyms from it using one of the dictionaries available. Example:

scrapper = SynonymScrapper::SynonymScrapper.new

scrapper.synonyms("entretenimiento", :datamuse)
scrapper.synonyms("saltar", :educalingo)
scrapper.synonyms("auto", :nltk)

Data obtained is an array of hashes containing the keys :word and :score.

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

• Implement more synonym sources
• Use datamuse's API full capabilities
• Filter data obtained from dictionaries by score
• Add method to get synonyms from all dictionaries
• Extend to more languages

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.