Use a thesaurus for words on the board

Gullesnuffs / Codenames

A codenames bot playing the part of the spymaster.

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Use a thesaurus for words on the board #19

Open simonlindholm opened 7 years ago

simonlindholm commented 7 years ago

To more explicitly test all possible meanings of them. When you play codenames, you try to give more equal consideration to obscure meanings of words and to common ones than you'd normally do.

HalfVoxel commented 7 years ago

Don't we need similarity measures for the different meanings for this to work?

simonlindholm commented 7 years ago

Yes, I'm thinking of something like:

given a board word w
take all its synonyms, v_1 ... v_k
give each synonym a relative weight a_i within [0, 1] by how strong the synonymy is, by taking some function of the similarity measure
define the new similarity between w and another word z to be roughly max(a_i * sim(v_i, z))

(where presumably v_1 = w, a_1 = 1)