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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Natural language processing tech for the desktop!
From:       "Jordi Polo" <mumismo () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-10-21 18:02:19
Message-ID: a4162420810211102p3ad713bbx701483263fe5d85 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com> wrote:

> Jordi Polo wrote:
>
> > I __might__ be able to choose a project to work one year (I mean one
> year,
> > every day, several hours/day). The project must be something related to
> > NLP (Natural Language Processing).
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Any opinion about these ideas is very much welcomed.
> >
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> There's a project called Sonnet I believe, part of which is about
> discovering the language that a particular piece of text is written in. You
> might be able to work on that.


There is a opensource library that already does that. There is an algorithm
that is both fast enough and give reasonable results. I can port it to qt,
there is some code in playground/sonnet


>
>
> Also, how about a grammar checker, similar to the spell checkers we already
> have, but for grammar, which could be used in kdepim, koffice, or anywhere.


Some people argue that a grammar checker is not very useful. And anyway it
looks pretty boring ...



-- 
Jordi Polo Carres
NLP laboratory - NAIST
http://www.bahasara.org

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Stephen Kelly <span \
dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:steveire@gmail.com">steveire@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> \
wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, \
204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">Jordi Polo \
wrote:<br> <br>
&gt; I __might__ be able to choose a project to work one year (I mean one year,<br>
&gt; every day, several hours/day). The project must be something related to<br>
&gt; NLP (Natural Language Processing).<br>
&gt;<br>
</div>&gt; ...<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">&gt;<br>
&gt; Any opinion about these ideas is very much welcomed.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
<br>
</div>Hi,<br>
<br>
There&#39;s a project called Sonnet I believe, part of which is about<br>
discovering the language that a particular piece of text is written in. You<br>
might be able to work on that.</blockquote><div><br>There is a opensource library \
that already does that. There is an algorithm that is both fast enough and give \
reasonable results. I can port it to qt, there is some code in playground/sonnet<br> \
&nbsp;<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid \
rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> <br>
Also, how about a grammar checker, similar to the spell checkers we already<br>
have, but for grammar, which could be used in kdepim, koffice, or \
anywhere.</blockquote><div><br>Some people argue that a grammar checker is not very \
                useful. And anyway it looks pretty boring \
                ...<br><br>&nbsp;</div></div><br>
-- <br>Jordi Polo Carres<br>NLP laboratory - NAIST<br><a \
href="http://www.bahasara.org">http://www.bahasara.org</a><br><br>



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