From: Eric Christopherson <echristopherson@...>
Date: 2012-10-10T04:10:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Simulation of a dictionary

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Joao Silva <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> What I'm trying to do, is a program that has a hash with predefined
> words and its corresponding meaning, then when I enter a word that is
> found in the hash, I must return its meaning, and if not found in the
> hash, should return the most similar word.

Maybe use something like Levenshtein distance.

Some links to look at:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2158851/grouping-strings-by-similarity
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2531502/detect-similar-sounding-words-in-ruby