DaDa Word Engine

Minimum JDK: 11

What is it?

Generic word-aware parsing, construction and processing tool for generating sentences based on word types. You can generate random sentences based on defined structure by parsing or constructing a sentence based on word types and generating random output using the parsed structure.

Phonemix transformer is included to convert a word to the way it sounds (based on various algorithms) to allow better search term matching.

Phonemix algorithm

• Original compacting algorithm is very loosely based on ideas in Russell Soundex (1918)
• Compacting algorithm designed in 1993 by Alex Chachanashvili for Dada Wallpaper Poem BBS art project (updated in 2004)
• Aggressive algorithm designed in 2017 by Alex Chachanashvili for Dada poem generator and Discord bot, wider search results
• Enhanced algorithm designed in 2021 by Alex Chachanashvili for better rhyming and more accurate search results

Where is it?

Source maintained at: https://github.com/AlexChachanashviliOss/DadaWordEngine

Maven Repository: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.github.achacha/DadaWordEngine

Releases at Maven Repository:

<groupId>io.github.achacha</groupId>
<artifactId>DadaWordEngine</artifactId>
<version>[latest version]</version>

Features

• Support for multiple word sets (WordData)
• Parsing will detect word and its possible type (Sentence)
• Word hyphenation (HyphenData)
• Transformation to phonetic form useful for search and match based on what it sounds like
• Integrated as custom JSP tags for easier dynamic content generation

Examples

See /src/main/java/org/achacha/dada/examples

Display phonetic representation forward and reverse:

mvn compile exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="io.github.achacha.dada.examples.PhonemixExample" 

Parse sentence, try to determine parts and replace with other random words of same type:

mvn compile exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="io.github.achacha.dada.examples.ParseAndRegenerateSentenceExample" 

Reads word/sentence and tries to find a rhyme:

mvn compile exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="io.github.achacha.dada.examples.FindWordsThatRhymeExample" 
mvn compile exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="io.github.achacha.dada.examples.RhymeWithSentenceExample" 

JSP integration

1. Copy TLD file from {this jar}/WEB-INF/tlds to {your webapp resources}/WEB-INF/tlds
2. Initialize TagSingleton with WordData and HypenData during container/context initialization
   • TagSingleton.setWordData(new WordData("resource:/data/extended2018"));
   • TagSingleton.setHypenData(new HyphenData("resource:data/hyphen"));
3. Add tags to your JSP page (see provided examples in {this jar}/WEB-INF/*.jsp)

Word Data

1. All data is converted to lower case
2. Leading # is used as a comment
3. Whitespace is trimmed front and back