CGI Interface

If you want to use this tool from your web site, here is the CGI Interface: (Note: If you want to upload local html text to the tool, you need to use attribute name/value pair: enctype="multipart/form-data" within the form tag)

• URL: http://taporware.mcmaster.ca/cgi-bin/prototype/synonym.cgi

Here are the parameters:

Web Service Interface

Taporware provides web services to any non-benefit organizations. Here is the taporware web services infomation:

• Endpoint URL: http://taporware.mcmaster.ca:9982
• Service URI: http://taporware.mcmaster.ca/~taporware/webservice
• Service Method: synonymFinder
• parameters:
  • word -- Any word you want to see its synonym

Pseudocode

• Converter the user entered word to all low case if necessary
• Query the Roget's Interactive Thesaurus to get the results.
• Process the results, and eliminate all the unrelated entry.
• Format the output

Way of Using

• Enter a "simple" -- non-plural, non-tensed word in the "Word' field
• Click the submit button
• In the result page, you can click any synonym and/or antonym to get its corresponding synonyms and/or antonyms

Synonym Finder

Description