WantWords

Why we included this project

Most dictionaries go from word to definition; WantWords works the other way. You type a phrase describing what you mean, and it returns candidate words that semantically match, which is exactly the tool you want when a word sits on the tip of your tongue or you can only recall a rough idea of it. Writers, language learners, and people dealing with word-finding difficulties all fit that profile. The repository is a full implementation rather than a thin demo: a Django web service, pre-trained models, and data let you reinstall the whole pipeline, and the underlying multi-channel reverse dictionary model is documented in a published paper. Both English and Chinese are supported, so it also works as a bilingual reference for building semantic lookup systems.