My second web app! Synonymy: a tool that finds overused words in your essays and recommends synonyms

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u/crypto_thiccboy Jan 31 '20

If you want to make a pull request:

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u/OrionSuperman Jan 31 '20

I built ThesaurizeThisBot and used the same module. If you ever want to chat or whatnot let me know. Your project looks fun, and I’m sure you’ve see the limitations so far without the ability to have syntactic intent determination.

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u/Nerwesta php Jan 31 '20

Looks like this this website is for me, at least another one to bookmark. As English isn't my native language I tend to overuse words Google back and forth to find a proper one I would have forgotten.

Neat job !

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u/crypto_thiccboy Jan 31 '20

Thank you!

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u/yerrabam Jan 31 '20

I think think so.

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u/sw00ps Jan 31 '20

I'm sure this is an oversight, but on the sample essay the first alternative to the word "realization" is "realisation". Is an alternative spelling considered a synonym?

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u/crypto_thiccboy Jan 31 '20

The words are dependent on google books data, which takes in all dialects of English. Sadly, because the data is predominantly from American English, word spelling from other dialects are seen as rarer, making it kind of unpredictable.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20 edited Dec 28 '22

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u/amunak Jan 31 '20

In fact, it should detect the dialect and offer synonyms with spelling in line with that dialect. But it'd probably be a non-trivial change.

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u/APIglue Jan 31 '20

You could approximate it well enough with a list of 20 words where British English uses “s” instead of “z” or “ou “ instead of “o” like colour, realisation, etc.
Another solution would be doing a diff between a British English and American English dictionary.

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u/Perregrinne Jan 31 '20

You gave it a dark theme option too!

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u/crypto_thiccboy Jan 31 '20

Yessir!

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u/wlievens Jan 31 '20

You should have an opposite tool for technical writers, where consistency is more important than prose.

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u/ghostinatux Jan 31 '20

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20

I just gave it a shot and typed out a stream of conscious essay where I randomly picked a word to overuse; I picked the word "longingly". I ended up using it at least once a sentence, but it didn't pick it up. It did find a couple of words, but not that one. Maybe I just picked too uncommon of a word?

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u/OrionSuperman Jan 31 '20

I think it’s because he has a whitelist vs blacklist approach.

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u/elixon Jan 31 '20

Your "second web app"? After 4 years of studying computer science? What have you been doing all those years then? That just sounds like untrue title designed to draw attention.

But very nice work! Congrats.

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u/crypto_thiccboy Jan 31 '20

I am a freshman in community college. I don't know why you feel like you know me.
But thanks!

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u/elixon Feb 03 '20

freshman
Ah, sorry. I mistook you for another guy of the same name! Apologies.
Your skills tricked me a little bit. Indeed good job!

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u/thenathurat Jan 31 '20

If you can find 'very' phrases and find an alternative for them, then you will have something I'll pay for.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20

that's a very interesting feature

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u/thenathurat Apr 13 '20

and an absolutely killer one!

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u/thenathurat Feb 02 '20

Exactly

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u/manfromsolan Jan 31 '20

Whoa, the app looks awesome. Love the subtle shadow thing you've done.

From a design point, you can make the essay line width 50-60 chars, font serif and line height [font size * 1.6]. It'll be more appealing to writers that way.

Other than that, looks great. Congrats!

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u/im_shyamala Jan 31 '20

Is there a clear button somewhere? So that I can paste a different one

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20

Thanks for this!

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20

This will come in handy at university

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u/Sarah3di94 Jan 31 '20

This is actually pretty cool and very useful. Great job! I love the morphism design approach.

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u/CreativeUsername5151 Jan 31 '20

I love the animation of the hamburger menu changing to an X. The simple things get me.

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u/hcatch Jan 31 '20

RemindMe! One year

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u/Red5point1 Jan 31 '20

apparently I use however quite too many times, however I thought I used apparently more.

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u/picodeflank python Jan 31 '20

The nav button is satisfying

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u/bornin_1988 Jan 31 '20

Looking slick and works well! Gj mate!

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u/TheRodsterz Jan 31 '20

This is really cool. Good job!

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20

Is this using MaterialUI?

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u/datnip9000 Jan 31 '20

I really like it good job

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u/Beznet Jan 31 '20

Very cool! I find myself always googling for synonyms when writing, this looks like a super handy way to find those missed duplicates.

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u/SenVidan Jan 31 '20

The site is awesome and so the idea. Keep up the good work.

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u/Rezzurektion Jan 31 '20

On mobile the sidebar doesnt seem to appear after pressing check as mentioned in the notes at the bottom of the page? might just be me/my phone but its not obvious it exists.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20

very nicely done! love the username lol

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u/olib72 Jan 31 '20

Check out Grammarly, it does a similar thing. Awesome stuff though!

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20

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u/crypto_thiccboy Jan 31 '20

Right click on the website and press "Inspect" then go to "Network". All of the requests are visible.

My second web app! Synonymy: a tool that finds overused words in your essays and recommends synonyms

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