synonyms function

Search For Synonyms

synonyms - Search for synonyms that match term(s).

synonyms_frame - Generate a synonym lookup hash key for use with the synonym.frame argument in the synonym

function.

synonyms(
  terms,
  return.list = TRUE,
  multiwords = TRUE,
  report.null = TRUE,
  synonym.frame = qdapDictionaries::key.syn
)

syn(
  terms,
  return.list = TRUE,
  multiwords = TRUE,
  report.null = TRUE,
  synonym.frame = qdapDictionaries::key.syn
)

synonyms_frame(synonym.list, prior.frame)

syn_frame(synonym.list, prior.frame)

Arguments

• terms: The terms to find synonyms for.
• return.list: logical. If TRUE returns the output for multiple synonyms as a list by search term rather than a vector.
• multiwords: logical. IF TRUE retains vector elements that contain phrases (defined as having one or more spaces) rather than a single word.
• report.null: logical. If TRUE reports the words that no match was found at the head of the output.
• synonym.frame: A dataframe or hash key of positive/negative words and weights.
• synonym.list: A named list of lists (or vectors) of synonyms.
• prior.frame: A prior synonyms data.frame in the format produced by synonyms_frame.

Returns

Returns a list of vectors or vector of possible words that match term(s).

Examples

## Not run:

synonyms(c("the", "cat", "job", "environment", "read", "teach"))
head(syn(c("the", "cat", "job", "environment", "read", "teach"), 
    return.list = FALSE), 30)
syn(c("the", "cat", "job", "environment", "read", "teach"), multiwords = FALSE)

## User defined synonym lookup
syn_dat <- list(
    like = list(c("want", "desire"), c("love", "care")),
    show = list(c("reveal"), c("movie", "opera")),
    R = c("old friend", "statistics language")
)

synonyms_frame(syn_dat)
syn(c("R", "show"), synonym.frame = syn_frame(syn_dat))

syns.hash <- syn_frame(syn_dat, prior.frame = qdapDictionaries::key.syn)
syn(c("R", "show", "like", "robot"), synonym.frame = syns.hash)
## End(Not run)

References

The synonyms dictionary (see key.syn) was generated by web scraping the Reverso (https://dictionary.reverso.net/english-synonyms/) Online Dictionary. The word list fed to Reverso is the unique words from the combination of DICTIONARY

and labMT.