Opensource vocabulary services?

Srinubabu Ravilla

I am developing an English vocabulary related project. Is there any open source service available, where I can consume that to get the meanings for words.

Srinubabu Ravilla

OriginalGriff

What does this have to do with C#? I'd suggest you post it as a QA question: [^] where it will reach a wider audience.

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Srinubabu Ravilla

I need C# supported service. So that's why I asked this here. Thanks for your suggestion. I'll post it as a question.

Srinubabu Ravilla

Lost User

Do you mean a free service that you can use to get the meaning? In that case it doesn't matter what language it is written in as you can consume it in any client. As for open source code that provides exactly that - the answer is "probably not". A webservice is quite simple to write, and you are basically asking for a lookup service. Most tutorials will already give you that basics. Only thing you'd need to acquire is a free dictionary. You could use the wiktionary for that. You'd be getting defintions of the words by the way; meaning of the word may vary by locale and context and cannot yet be determined by machines.

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Dave Kreskowiak

The language doesn't matter at all. There's no such thing as a service that "supports C#". It's always the other way around. Can you write code that properly consumes the service?

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