Augmenting Language Tools for Effective Communication

Abstract

Wide spread use of the Internet and tools available on it, help users to communicate well. Good vocabulary is a prerequisite for effective communication, whether written or spoken. Sometimes, while composing text, the user gets stuck for an appropriate word, even though the concept to be communicated is clear in the mind. In this paper, we propose a language tool called ‘WordCoin’, to suggest the appropriate word options based on the concepts expressed for the intended word. We study the utility of existing dictionaries and networks for such an application. Importantly, we also study how far user’s interpretation of a word matches with the meanings quoted in the dictionary. Our study shows, there is a lot of difference between the two. We need to augment the tools to supply the appropriate word based on these observations.