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Show HN: A tool to auto-generate vocabulary for a book

1 pointsby dd367over 3 years ago

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dd367over 3 years ago
Takes a book in English, finds the words that are &quot;rare&quot; (by the measure IDF &gt;= 15 or -ln(frequency) &gt; 14) and lists the definition in a dictionary and the places it occurs in the original text. The final output is a static HTML file. You can view a live demo for a subset of words from a book here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deedy.github.io&#x2F;vocabuliwala&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deedy.github.io&#x2F;vocabuliwala&#x2F;</a><p>Some examples output demonstrating some of the key features of Vocabuliwala: - Dictionary lookup - Secondary dictionary lookup: looking up dictionary meanings which themselves need explanation - Difficulty rating - Show appearances in the input book<p>Who is this for? - A casual reader of a book - A teacher trying to teach a book - Students trying to learn vocabulary for a standardized test<p>Curious to get the community&#x27;s feedback and see how I can improve this!