gHacks technology news » thesaurus http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:55:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Visual Thesaurus VocabGrabber http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/25/visual-thesaurus-vocabgrabber/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/25/visual-thesaurus-vocabgrabber/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:26:35 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=13851 visual thesaurusVocabGrabber is an interesting online service provided by Visual Thesaurus. The online tool can be used to analyze text that can consist of up to 200000 characters. All that needs to be done is to copy and paste text into the form on the Visual Thesaurus website to receive an in depth analysis of the text.

The online service will compute a list of words that have been found in the text and categorize them in multiple ways. The words are for example sorted by relevancy and subject. A click on any word will also display the relationship to other words in the text, a definition of the word and example usage from the text.

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A word cloud is displayed that is showing all words that have been discovered in the text. It is possible to filter words by relevancy or subject which can reduce the amount of words quite a bit. The subject filter is interesting as it displays word that fall into subjects such as math, science or art.

VocabGrabber has been designed to create a vocabulary list which can be a great help to understand and learn the text that has been pasted into the web form. It is currently only working with text that has been written in English.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/25/visual-thesaurus-vocabgrabber/feed/ 2 The Sage English Dictionary and Thesaurus http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/02/the-sage-english-dictionary-and-thesaurus/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/02/the-sage-english-dictionary-and-thesaurus/#comments Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:08:18 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/02/the-sage-english-dictionary-and-thesaurus/ I’m very happy about the fact that Firefox 2.0 has a build in (English) dictionary which helps me correct most of the mistakes I make while writing articles here at ghacks. The build in dictionary is great but lacks certain features and that is why I went on a hunt for a better dictionary. Look what I found in my net today: The Sage’s English Dictionary and Thesaurus.

It delivers what the firefox dictionary can’t. You may lookup words by simply pressing a hotkey, the word will be looked up and explained in great detail in the sage. If the word does not exist in the dictionary it presents a list of words that look similar or use the wildcard button to find the word you are looking for.

The great thing about the sage is not that it is easy to use. It’s purpose is not to deliver fast results, the process to lookup a word is simply to slow to be effective (mark a word, hit the hotkey, look it up in the sage, manually edit the word). The sage is effective when it comes to understanding words that you do not know. It also helps by being able to work with almost any other program on your computer.

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As you all know the firefox dictionary is restricted to firefox and thunderbird, what if you want to write something in an instant messenger ?  The Sage has a history function, can stay on top if you like. It displays synonyms and hypernyms while looking up the word and is able to create anagrams from the word as well.

Oh, the hotkey is CTRL+SHIFT+A, took a while to look it up in the documentation.

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