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Word associations dictionary

Word associations dictionary

The most comprehensive dictionary of word associations available today, combining data from:

• Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT)
• University of South Florida Free Association Norms (USF-FAN)
• wordassociation.org
• Taboo games online:
  • taboogame.net
  • playtaboo.com

data format

There are two versions of the word associations dictionary in the repository:

• associations-full : the complete list of associations (in CSV, DICT and SQL formats)
• associations-tiny : limited to 11 associations per keyword (in CSV and DICT formats)

make your own

If you don't want to use the precompiled version of the word associations dictionary, you can create your own using the Node create.js scripts, which

• takes source xml data files from the sourcedata folder
• and outputs a tabfile for use in stardict-editor (included in repository, windows binary)

usage

node create.js <number of associations> creates a file named result with specified number of associations per word

suggested workflow

1. node create.js 10
2. stardict-editor.exe (unzip from tools\stardict editor.zip) -- load result with the gui
3. dictzip <result>.dict
4. dictzip <result>.idx

example usage / demos

Below are some projects that make use of the word associations dictionary:

• Exploring word associations
• Create Taboo cards for ESL conversation classes. Learn through word associations

MIT License

Copyright 2016-7 Wiktor Jakubczyc