Coming up with good name suggestions is probably the hardest part. I love
the idea of using DNS lookups to narrow down suggestions.
I think the process would look something like this:
Lookup original name
If available show purchase page, EXIT
Otherwise, feed name into Wordnet and look for synonyms.
If words are found see if you can find them using DNS (or even SRS)
If some words appear "available", show them on purchase page, EXIT
Otherwise (suggested words not available), try appending words to
original and start over
The tricky part is figuring out what to do when all synonyms are taken. How
do you come up with good suggestions that don't just tack on "my" or "your"
to the name? This is where it gets hard. When you are given two words you
can then perform another synonym lookup, do some pretty large joins, and
then spit out a massive list of suggestions. The killer app at this point
would be able to reduce this massive list of nonsense names into a list of
say 10 genuinely good names.
How do you pick the 10 good names? I have no idea. I guess this is why the
suggestors usually just spew out like 50 recommendations...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Ess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: INDIANNIC : Re: Anyone interested?
> > I don't know if it's any use to you guys, I guess you all use Perl, but
I
> > have been developing a Wordnet extension for PHP, specifically for this
> > purpose. Maybe there's something similar for Perl.
>
> There is a Perl module on CPAN here:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Lingua-Wordnet
>
> Sorry I didn't include this in my first email.
>
> --CAE
>
