Syngen

Syngen is a small program that generates synonyms for use in Forest bots and elsewhere. It uses the modern wordnet library wn under the hood.

There are two scripts in this repo. syngen.py will print a list of synonyms to stdout or to a file. syngraph.py will generate a graph visualization in HTML format and open it in a browser.

Both scripts take an argument for part of speech. This can be either a single type, like v or n, or a list, like v,n,a.

Depth levels above 2 are not recommended, due to combinatorial explosion 😅

Examples in output.txt and output.html were generated with settings --depth 0 --pos v link

syngen.py

usage: syngen.py [-h] [-d DEPTH] [-o OUTPATH] [-p POS] words [words ...]

list synonyms for a term

positional arguments:
  words                 the words to graph synonyms for

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d DEPTH, --depth DEPTH
                        depth to extend graph
  -o OUTPATH, --outpath OUTPATH
                        file to write results
  -p POS, --pos POS     part of speech of word(s)

syngraph.py

usage: syngraph.py [-h] [-d DEPTH] [-o OUTPATH] [-p POS] words [words ...]

graph synonyms for a term

positional arguments:
  words                 the words to graph synonyms for

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d DEPTH, --depth DEPTH
                        depth to extend graph
  -o OUTPATH, --outpath OUTPATH
                        file to write figure
  -p POS, --pos POS     part of speech of word(s)