P.S. What you suggest can be used as adjacency graph, and synonyms can be found through good old Breath First Search on it to find a presence/absence of path between two words.
On Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 4:04:41 AM UTC+2 dsblak...@gmail.com wrote: > In practice I would probably just build a map, word : #setofsynonyms and > whenever a synonym was added [a b], I would add b to a's set and a to b's > set. > > Or, even more likely, a vector, because "a" is probably a homonym (if > we're talking English) and if "a" is "bank", I need one set of synonyms for > "places to put your money" and another set for "the side of a river" and > another set for "to hit [an object] off a wall or other barrier". Unless > you have some other annotation besides the word so that you can distinguish > "bank[1]" from "bank[2]" and "bank[3]". > > On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 7:32 AM SideStep <nesvarb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Task is to write a program that can decide whether two words are synonyms >> or not. >> >> I have pairs of synonymous words, E.g.: >> >> [big large] >> [large huge] >> [small little] >> >> We can derive the synonymous relationship indirectly: if big is a synonym >> for large and large is a synonym for huge then big is a synonym for huge. >> Being synonyms doesn’t depend on order, e.g. if big is a synonym for >> large then large is a synonym for big. >> >> The program has to answer whether given two words are synonyms or not. >> >> This seems to me as a good candidate for logic programming, e.g. with >> clojure.core.logic. >> >> a. How to state the input pairs of synonyms as logical >> statements/constraints? >> b. How to perform a query to find all synonyms of a given word? >> >> Or perhaps I am yack shaving? What would be a simpler way to solve this? >> >> This question is also on stackowerflow, if you want to get some points: >> >> >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67002758/logic-programming-find-synonyms-of-a-given-word >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+u...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clojure/0cd164b2-56eb-4e99-866d-b1f63522ac52n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clojure/0cd164b2-56eb-4e99-866d-b1f63522ac52n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clojure/56b72599-df75-43ce-a83d-b434fe4f0dfen%40googlegroups.com.
