Tip-of-the-tongue? Lookup words from their definitions.
Ever had that problem when you know of the concept yet cannot recall the word? Thesaurus is a usually pretty poor solution, because it's built to link individual words to each other, instead of definitions to words. This reverse dictionary is indexed by the definitions. This enables us to lookup words simply from a rough description.
The dictionary was loaded from WordNet through NLTK and TextBlob. It utilizes Tf-idf implemented by Elasticsearch to match definitions to their words.
More details are available at my complimenary blog post.
The monthly hosting cost is $9 for the search engine (Seachly). Please help me keep this tool running. You are my only hope.
DonateThe Python code is available on Github. It contains the library, CLI, and this basic web service. Details of how to use run each implementation are documented in README.md.
Please don't hesitate to contact me on how to improve ReverseDict.
I am also available for contract work.