Bulk Synonym Import!

Mitch38 · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 4:23 am Post subject: Bulk Synonym Import!

Seriously. Magic could be had if you could import databases into the synonym file.
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JonC · Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:56 pm Post subject: Importing synonyms

The actual importation of synonyms would be no problem, provided that the data was presented in CSV format.
the synonyms could be set up a CSV file (one row per synonym group eg lady,woman,girl) and each row of a CSV file can be stored as a separate vars-variable.
A modification to my MatchOr VCM function would then allow you to match a root word (eg lady) to any synonym and a bit of tweaking to by CSV.GetElement function would allow you to select a random(ish) example from the whole row.
If you want to pursue this Mitch, take it to the Scripting forum (preferably under my "CSV files - at last" thread and I'll suggest how it could be done.

ps I said "random(ish)" because there are some problems with Verbot-generated random numbers. Main one is you can't do it very frequently without getting the same one back each time!
On other hand I have a VCM function for this too.