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find_synonyms(word)
private
Look up synonyms on WordNet. Thanks to Florian Gross (flgr).
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def find_synonyms(word)
require 'open-uri'
require 'timeout'
timeout(5) do
open(SYNONYM_LOOKUP_URI % word) do |stream|
data = stream.read.gsub(" ", " ").scan(/<a href="webwn.*?">([\w ]*?)<\/a>/s).uniq
end
end
rescue Exception
return nil
end