Overlapping Thesaurus
Posted: 2010.10.18 (03:55)
I'm not sure if this's been thought up yet or used, but while trying to find ways to vary my vocabulary on an online thesaurus, I thought of the idea of a thesaurus script that compares the synonyms of multiple words and picks only the overlap, to narrow down what word you're looking for. My example was I was searching for synonyms of "style" and "prose" for an essay comparing Allende and Garcia Márquez, and it was a pain to filter through synonyms like "fashion" for style and "poetry" for prose. But if a program took only the overlapping synonyms between the two, it would be able to find synonyms closer to what I was searching for.