c# API to use wordnet-what is better?

Question

Hi, I am doing a web based chattebot system and my problems are these.

• I need to get a particular user question and check for some specific keywords in it(for example take the nouns) and find for synonyms and well as do the spell check?

Therefore What is the best C# API for wordnet?? Well what I want to do is get a sentence from a textbox and use it for synonym and spell check and there is both c# ASP and standalone app APIs on the wrodnet site.What is the best way?

Can I do both spell check and synonym check using wordnet and the other c# API??

I would be grateful if you could give me some solutions.

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

If you can I would use the WPF built in spell checker, just add a reference to PresentationFramework in your ASP.NET project and you can programmatically create a WPF text box to use for spell check etc.

    List<string> getSuggestions(string text)
    {
        System.Windows.Controls.TextBox wpfTextBox = new System.Windows.Controls.TextBox();
        wpfTextBox.AcceptsReturn = true;
        wpfTextBox.AcceptsTab = true;
        wpfTextBox.SpellCheck.IsEnabled = true;
        wpfTextBox.Text = text;

        int index = 0;
        List<string> suggestions = new List<string>();

        while ((index = wpfTextBox.GetNextSpellingErrorCharacterIndex(index, System.Windows.Documents.LogicalDirection.Forward)) != -1)
        {
            string currentError = wpfTextBox.Text.Substring(index, wpfTextBox.GetSpellingErrorLength(index));
            suggestions.Add(currentError);

            foreach (string suggestion in wpfTextBox.GetSpellingError(index).Suggestions)
            {
                suggestions.Add(suggestion);
            }
        }
        return suggestions;
    }