RIDic

Ruby interface for the Regressive Imagery Dictionary :
http://www.kovcomp.co.uk/wordstat/RID.html

RID is a text content analysis set, associating words (and word stems) with
categories such as emotion, sensation and "abstract thought"

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ridic'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ridic

Documentation

API Methods :

RiDic.word_match("string")

Returns categories if word is an exact match

RiDic.stem_match("string")

Returns categories if word is a match for a provided stem

RiDic.all_categories_in_document("multi word string")

Returns a list of all categories matching all words in a given body of text

RiDic.category_in_document("multi word string", category_number_fixnum)

Returns a list of a specific category hierarchy contained in a given body of text

RiDic.category_distribution("multi word string", category_number_fixnum)

Returns the occurrence of each specified category (within a hierarchy) contained in a body of text

category_number refers to the “column”, or category hierarchy. In the case of “ALE”, categories 1, 2 and 3 would be ORALITY, NEED and PRIMARY respectively.

"ALE" => ["ORALITY","NEED","PRIMARY"]

The full dictionary can be found in its original format at the URL provided at the top of the page, or in hash table format
within lib/ridic/dictionary.rb

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request