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Welcome to scan the following QR code to try it!\n\u003cdiv align=center\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"resources/miniprogram.jpg\" width = \"300\"  alt=\"MiniProgram QR code\"/\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\n## What Is a Reverse Dictionary?\nOpposite to a regular (forward) dictionary that provides definitions for query words, a reverse dictionary returns words semantically matching the query descriptions.\n\n\u003cdiv align=center\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"resources/rd_example.png\" alt=\"rd_example\" width = \"600\"/\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n## What Can a Reverse Dictionary Do?\n* Solve the *tip-of-the-tongue problem*, the phenomenon of failing to retrieve a word from memory\n* Help new language learners\n* Help word selection (or word dictionary) anomia patients, people who can recognize and describe an object but fail to name it due to neurological disorder\n\n## Our System\n### Workflow\n\n\u003cdiv align=center\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"resources/workflow.png\" alt=\"workflow\" width = \"500\"  /\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n### Core Model\n\nThe core model of WantWords is based on our proposed **Multi-channel Reverse Dictionary Model** [[paper](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/5365/5221)] [[code](https://github.com/thunlp/MultiRD)], as illustrate in the following figure.\n\n\u003cdiv align=center\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"resources/MRD_model.png\" alt=\"model\" width = \"500\" /\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n### Pre-trained Models and Data\n\nYou can [download](https://cloud.tsinghua.edu.cn/d/811dcb428ed24480bc60/) and decompress the pre-trained models and data to `BASE_PATH/website_RD/` to reimplement the system.\n\n### Key Requirements\n\n* Django==2.2.5\n* django-cors-headers==3.5.0\n* numpy==1.17.2\n* pytorch-transformers==1.2.0\n* requests==2.22.0\n* scikit-learn==0.22.1\n* scipy==1.4.1\n* thulac==0.2.0\n* torch==1.2.0\n* urllib3==1.25.6\n* uWSGI==2.0.18\n* uwsgitop==0.11\n\n## Cite\n\nIf the code or data help you, please cite the following two papers.\n\n```\n@inproceedings{qi2020wantwords,\n  title={WantWords: An Open-source Online Reverse Dictionary System},\n  author={Qi, Fanchao and Zhang, Lei and Yang, Yanhui and Liu, Zhiyuan and Sun, Maosong},\n  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations},\n  pages={175--181},\n  year={2020}\n}\n\n@inproceedings{zhang2020multi,\n  title={Multi-channel reverse dictionary model},\n  author={Zhang, Lei and Qi, Fanchao and Liu, Zhiyuan and Wang, Yasheng and Liu, Qun and Sun, Maosong},\n  booktitle={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},\n  pages={312--319},\n  year={2020}\n}\n```\n\n\n\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fthunlp%2FWantWords","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fthunlp%2FWantWords","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fthunlp%2FWantWords/lists"}