word.associations

word associations

Explore words through word associations

features

• start with a single word and explore its associations

• rich database of word associations that builds upon the association dictionary, the most comprehensive dictionary of word associations today, combining data from:

• Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT)

• University of South Florida Free Association Norms (USF-FAN)

• wordassociation.org

• very fast lookups using stardict.js

• fully client-side and portable - works offline, too!

• zero dependency pure vanilla javascript + tiny code

• responsive mobile-first layout

screenshot / example

demo

check it out here

further reading

Read up on the efficiency of learning words through associations here:

• How to Teach Vocabulary by Word Associations to ESL Learners

• Researching vocabulary through a word knowledge framework

• 38 Language-Learning Experts Reveal Their Favorite Methods for Learning Vocabulary

• Vocabulary Learning Strategies, Schmitt

• Strategies for learning vocabulary

• Vocabulary Learning in a Second Language: Person, Task, Context and Strategies

• Word associations in a foreign language

• Connected Words: Word Associations and Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition

implementation details

Read more about achieving good performance on queries for javascript dictionaries:

• Random access to zlib compressed files

• Javascript bgzf inflation and deflation

• Read-only access to dictzip compressed files

• JavaScript library for handling dictionaries in StarDict format

MIT License

Copyright 2016 Wiktor Jakubczyc