Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books! While playing around with word vectors and the ' HasProperty' API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word.
The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms).
