almouro/eloquence-node

Eloquence NodeJS Backend

Eloquence NodeJS Backend

This is the backend for Eloquence.

One of the files ('parser.jar') is missing in this repo because of GitHub size limitations

It provides a single API /sentence/{"sentence": sentence, words:[word1..wordn]} to retrieve:

• synonyms for word1 to wordn
• parsing for the sentence (which word is noun, verb...)

The Eloquence frontend stores words synonyms locally, so it can specify which words needs synonyms data.

Example: Sentence: "My cat is very happy", Words: ["cat", "happy"]

##Process

The 'sentence-processor' module launches multiple parallel asynchronous tasks and then return the results in a json file:

• Getting synonyms for each word given
• Parsing the sentence

It was a great chance to test NodeJS and its asynchronous nature.

###Getting synonyms The 'synonyms' module calls thesaurus.com to retrieve synonym information.

thesaurus.com does not provide a public API yet so the module is actually parsing raw HTML.

###Parsing the sentence The 'sentence-parser' module is a nodejs wrapper for the Java Stanford Parser

It's probably not the best idea but it's efficient enough and suited the needs of the apps.