SUSI can be taught to give responses from APIs as well. I made use of an API called Datamuse which is a premier search engine for English words, indexing 10 million unique words and phrases in more than 1000 dictionaries and glossaries.

1. First, we head towards creating our dream pad for creating rules for the skill. To do this we need to create a dream at dream.susi.ai and give it a name, say dictionary.

2. After that one needs to go to the API and check the response generated.

3. Going through the docs of the API, one can create various queries to produce informative responses as follows –

• Word with a similar meaning.

define *| Meaning of *| one word for *

!console: $word$
{
"url":"https://api.datamuse.com/words?ml=$1$",
"path":"$.[0]"
}
eol

• Word related to something that start with a given letter.

word related to * that start with the letter *

!console: $word$
{
"url":"https://api.datamuse.com/words?ml=$1$&sp=$2$*",
"path":"$.[0]"
}
eol

• Word that sound like a given word..

word that sound like *|sounding like *

!console: $word$
{
"url":"https://api.datamuse.com/words?sl=$1$",
"path":"$.[0]"
}
eol

• Words that are spelled similarly to a given word.

words that are spelled similarly to *| similar spelling to *| spelling of *

!console: $word$
{
"url":"https://api.datamuse.com/words?sp=$1$",
"path":"$.[0]"
}
eol

• Word that rhyme with a given word.

rhyme *| word rhyming with *

!console: $word$
{
"url":"https://api.datamuse.com/words?rel_rhy=$1$",
"path":"$.[0]"
}
eol

• Adjectives that are often used to describe a given word.

adjective to describe *|show adjective for *|adjective for *

!console: $word$
{
"url":"https://api.datamuse.com/words?rel_jjb=$1$",
"path":"$.[0]"
}
eol

• Suggestions for a given word.

suggestions for *| show words like *| similar words to * | words like *

!console: $word$
{
"url":"https://api.datamuse.com/sug?s=$1$",
"path":"$.[0]"
}
eol

This is a sample query response for define *

To create more dictionary skills go to http://dream.susi.ai/p/dictionary and add skills from the API. To contribute by adding more skills, send a pull request to the susi_skill_data.  To test the skills, you can go to chat.susi.ai