Question

I was wondering if there is any api or library available that provides a taxonomy for a given term in jSON.

For instance, if the argument is Shoes, it should return a data structure consisting of all the synonmys or types of shoes like Boots, Flip-flops, Slippers, Stilettos, and so on..

Thanks 🙂

Answer 1

Your best bet is to use the Java API for WordNet

http://lyle.smu.edu/~tspell/jaws/index.html

You can wrap this inside a servlet and call it via jquery in your application.