Moby
Ruby interface for Moby Project word lists. The goal is to provide interfaces for most of the Moby Project texts and/or wordlists.
Interfaces currently provided are listed below. More to come!
Install
gem install moby
Parts of Speech
Usage
pos = Moby::PartsOfSpeech.newList
Get word lists by part of speech
pos.nouns
pos.plurals
pos.noun_phrases
pos.adjectives
pos.adverbs
pos.conjunctions
pos.prepositions
pos.interjections
pos.pronouns
pos.definite_articles
pos.indefinite_articles
pos.nominatives#verbs takes an optional :type parameter since there's three types
pos.verbs
pos.verbs(:type => :all) # default
pos.verbs(:type => :usu)
pos.verbs(:type => :transitive)
pos.verbs(:type => :intransitive) Find
Find parts of speech info for a word
pos.find("word")
#=> {
#=> :word => "word",
#=> :code => "Nt",
#=> :pos => [:noun, :vert_transitive]
#=> }
pos.find("walk")
#=> {
#=> :word => "walk",
#=> :code => "iNt",
#=> :pos => [:noun, :verb_transitive, :verb_intransitive]
#=> }Query
Check a word by part of speech
pos.noun?("animal") #=> true
pos.verb?("run") #=> true
pos.intransitive_verb?("walk") #=> true
pos.adjective?("sky") #=> false#verb? takes an optional :type parameter (like #verbs)
pos.verb?("abandon", :type => :transitive) #=> true
pos.verb?("overurbanized", :type => :intransitive) #=> false
pos.verb?("overurbanized") #=> trueHyphenator
Usage
hyph = Moby::Hyphenator.newHyphenate words
hyph.hyphenate("bardish") #=> "bard-ish"
hyph.hyphenate("hastelessness") #=> "haste-less-ness"
hyph.hyphenate("interpollinating") #=> #"in-ter-pol-li-nat-ing"Returns the word unchanged if not found or if it shouldn't be hyphenated
hyph.hyphenate("Mordor") #=> "Mordor" (not found)
hyph.hyphenate("jest") #=> "jest" (shouldn't be hyphenated)Thesaurus
Usage
thes = Moby::Thesaurus.newGet related words (#syns and #related are aliases of #synonyms)
thes.synonyms("apercu")
#=> ["a priori knowledge", "abbreviation", "abbreviature", "abrege", ... ]
thes.syns("buoyant")
#=> ["adaptable", "adaptive", "afloat", "airy", "animated", ... ]
thes.related("infiltration")
#=> ["absorbency", "absorbent", "absorption", "access", "admission", ... ]Returns an empty array if word isn't found
thes.syns("Chewbacca") #=> []Copyright
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