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davegeek
27 Feb, 2008 - 01:13 PM
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Hi there.

I have got a list of all English words in the txt file, each word (it can be noun, verb, adjective, etc.) is at the new row.
I need to select only nouns and leave only 5 first letters of the word.

This is not home assignment (I am telling the truth!), just for the program which I develop, it'll use shortcuts for chatting purposes.
So, I can imagine how I will use VBA to leave the 1st 5 letters (in Excel sheet for example).

But please help me with the selection of all the nouns from the list, where can I start with and any ideas?
May be there is some kind of lexical analysis software that I can hook up my program with or anything like that?

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27 Feb, 2008 - 02:10 PM
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QUOTE(davegeek @ 27 Feb, 2008 - 02:13 PM) *

May be there is some kind of lexical analysis software that I can hook up my program with or anything like that?

Unlikely. Your best bet is probably to get a giant list of nouns, and compare each word to them to see if it's a noun.

There are lots of wordlists floating around on the net (mostly used for password cracking tbh), you'll just have to find one that's all nouns.
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QUOTE(Tom9729 @ 27 Feb, 2008 - 03:10 PM) *

QUOTE(davegeek @ 27 Feb, 2008 - 02:13 PM) *

May be there is some kind of lexical analysis software that I can hook up my program with or anything like that?

Unlikely. Your best bet is probably to get a giant list of nouns, and compare each word to them to see if it's a noun.

There are lots of wordlists floating around on the net (mostly used for password cracking tbh), you'll just have to find one that's all nouns.



I realize this post is somewhat old, but you may be able to query a website like dictionary.com and analyze what is on that page to determine if it is a noun or not. Of course this would require an active internet connection. This would alleviate the need to have a whole list of nouns.
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