wander-google-ngrams

Given a word, will use it to wander on a random path through the Google Ngram Viewer. It takes a word and finds 2-grams for it. Then, it picks a word from those 2-grams at random, and tries to find 3-grams containing the word and the newly picked word. It keeps repeating this process until it cannnot find an n-gram.

Note: Not officially supported by Google. Best not to count on this for anything important, and especially to not use it too frequently.

Installation

npm install wander-google-ngrams

Usage

var WanderGoogleNgrams = require('wander-google-ngrams');

var createWanderStream = WanderGoogleNgrams({
  wordnikAPIKey: '<your Wordnik API key>'
});
var opts = {
  word: 'cat',
  direction: 'backward'
};
wander(opts, done);

var stream = createWanderStream(opts);

stream.on('end', reportDone);
stream.on('error', reportError);
stream.pipe(process.stdout);

function reportDone() {
  console.log('Done!');
}

function reportError(error) {
  console.log(error);
}

Output:

cat
a
of
eyes
The

(Line breaks added for readability.)

If you want it to be less random, you can specify a pickNextGroup function in the opts that takes a list of n-gram groups and returns one of them.

You can also try running it with:

node tools/wander.js <word> <forward|backward>

Tests

Create a config.js file in the project root that looks like this:

module.exports = {
  wordnikAPIKey: '<your Wordnik API key>'
};

Then run:

make test

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Jim Kang

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