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<p>So if I understand you correctly, your question is not actually related to Squeak/Smalltalk at all but rather to the general problem of comparing English vocables by semantic? Off-topic, but still an interesting topic :)</p>
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<p>I can only give you a few rough keywords, maybe one of them can help you, and maybe you were already ten steps ahead of me :-)</p>
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<p>If you only care about similarity by letters, the simplest solution might be something like calculating the Longest Common Prefix of two strings and comparing the result with a threshold. (That term is googlable :)) However, this won't help you with pairs
such as "<span><span>acentric - acrocentric</span>" unless you use some kind of fuzzy matching.</span></p>
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<p>If you actually care about the semantic similarity, one approach could be a gigantic dictionary of synonyms. I'm sure there are any relevant databases on the web.</p>
<p>The problem with synonyms is that they can compare words only dually. But are "<span>centrifugal" and "centripetal" actually synonyms? It
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<p>A more sophisticated approach is word embeddings. The rough idea is to map each vocable to a large vector in which each component quantifies how related the vocable is to a specific topic. There's a lot of research around this field ...</p>
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<p>PS: What are you trying to do with these results, eventually? :-)</p>
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<p>Best,</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>Von:</b> Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von gettimothy via Squeak-dev <squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org><br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Freitag, 3. April 2020 21:00:57<br>
<b>An:</b> squeak-dev<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [squeak-dev] Ask objects to group themselves by similar meanings of words....</font>
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<div>Hi folks<br>
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<div>I have extracted the various Greek and Latin Roots from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_and_Latin_roots_in_English/A%E2%80%93G" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_and_Latin_roots_in_English/A–G</a> to Squeak
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<div>The objects correlate to one row in the various tables at the link.<br>
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<div>For example, I have one object for:<br>
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<div><td><b>abac-</b><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup></td><br>
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<div><td>slab</td><br>
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<div><td><span lang="grc"><a href="<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%84%CE%B2%CE%B1%CE%BE#Ancient_Greek" target="_blank">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%84%CE%B2%CE%B1%CE%BE#Ancient_Greek</a>" class="extiw" title="wikt:ἄβαξ">ἄβαξ, ἄβακος</a></span>
(<span title="Ancient Greek transliteration" lang="grc-Latn"><i>ábax, ábakos</i></span>), <span lang="grc"><a href="<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CE%B2%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%AF%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" target="_blank">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%80%CE%B2%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%AF%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek</a>"
class="extiw" title="wikt:ἀβακίσκος">ἀβακίσκος</a></span> (<span title="Ancient Greek transliteration" lang="grc-Latn"><i>abakískos</i></span>)</td><br>
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<div><td>abaciscus, <a href="/wiki/Abacus" title="Abacus">abacus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abax" class="mw-redirect" title="Abax">abax</a><br>
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<div>the cells are put into accessors..corresponding to the headers of the table:<br>
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<div>Root, Meaning, Origin, Etymology, English examples.<br>
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<div> root -> abac<br>
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<div> meaning -> slab<br>
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<div> language -> greek<br>
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<div> etymology -> blah<br>
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<div> examples -> more-blah<br>
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<div>Focusing on "english examples" I am interested in <br>
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<div>LatinRoots select:[:each | each english_examples "have same or similar meanings"]<br>
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<div>If anybody has pointers to projects that have grappled with that problem I would appreciate a link.<br>
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<div>answers like "Your question is completely nonsensical" are ok, too (:</div>
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<div>thanks for your time.</div>
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