Does anyone have a suggestion for where to find archives or collections of everyday English text for use in a small corpus? I have been using Gutenberg Project books for a working prototype, and wo...

Was wondering if anyone had any tips or could point me in the right direction to finding/creating some sort of algorithm to find rhyming words. I specifically do not want to use an API, as ...

Some background I am a literature student at New College of Florida, currently working on an overly ambitious creative project. The project is geared towards the algorithmic generation of poetry. ...

The input is either: (1) a bracketed representation of a tree with labeled internal nodes such as: (S (N John) (VP (V hit) (NP (D the) (N ball)))) with output: (Whether the lines are dashed ...

I'm a big fan of discovering sentences that can be rapped very quickly. For example, "gotta read a little bit of Wikipedia" or "don't wanna wind up in the gutter with a bottle of malt." (George Wat...

The app I'm currently working on requires me to determine the part of speech of a word in NSString. So basically is there a library/database/class which you can access in Objective C which allows ...

I am experimenting with word sense disambiguation using wordnet for my project. As a part of the project, I would like to convert a derived adjective or an adverb form to it's root noun form. For ...

I've been playing with Haskell for about a month. For my first "real" Haskell project I'm writing a parts-of-speech tagger. As part of this project I have a type called Tag that represents a parts-...

Is there any free database/place out there with commonality/usage ratios of English words? (British or U.S. English, doesn't matter) I don't care about the exact numbers, only relative to eachothe...

TL;DR Summary: I need a single command-line application which I can use to get synonyms and other related words. It needs to be multi-lingual and works cross platform. Can anyone suggest a suitable...

Is there a public API which would let me lookup definitions for words? I've been searching for this for a bit but it's getting mixed up with the dictionary datastructure. I'm planning on usin...

I'm learning NLP. I currently playing with Word Sense Disambiguation. I'm planning to use the semcor corpus as training data but I have trouble understanding the xml structure. I tried googling but...

I am using both Daitch-Mokotoff soundexing and Damerau-Levenshtein to find out if a user entry and a value in the application are "the same". Is Levenshtein distance supposed to be used as an abso...

I wondered how you would go about tokenizing strings in English (or other western languages) if whitespaces were removed? The inspiration for the question is the Sheep Man character in the Murakam...

In my news page project, I have a database table news with the following structure: - id: [integer] unique number identifying the news entry, e.g.: *1983* - title: [string] title of the text, e....

I have an algorithm that generates strings based on a list of input words. How do I separate only the strings that sounds like English words? ie. discard RDLO while keeping LORD. EDIT: To clarify,...

An interlinear gloss can be used to layout a translation of a document. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlinear_gloss Usually this is done word-by-word or morpheme-by-morpheme. However, I ...

Some languages, particularly Slavic languages, change the endings of people's names according to the grammatical context. (For those of you who know grammar or studied languages that do this to wor...

I am looking for word alignment tools and algorithms. I am dealing with bilingual English - Hindi text, and currently working on DTW (Dynamic Time Warping) algorithm CLA (Competitive Linking Alg...

Let's say there is a sentence: On March 1, he was born. Changing it to He was born on March 1. doesn't break the sense of the sentence and it is still valid. Shuffling words in any other way...

Let's say you should monitor the brand "ONE" online. What algorithms can be used to separate pages about the brand ONE from pages containing the common word ONE? I'm thinking maybe Bayes could wor...

I'm making a boggle-like word game. The user is given a grid of letters like this: O V Z W X S T A C K Y R F L Q The user picks out a word using any adjacent chains of letters, like the word "ST...

What are books about how to build a natural language parsing program like this: input: I got to TALL you output: I got to TELL you input: Big RAT box output: Big RED box in: hoo un thum zend th...

My goal is to analyze some corpus (twitter for the now) for emotional content. Just today I realized it would make a bit of sense to search for word stems as opposed to having an exhaustive list of...

I am writing a script to reverse all genders in a piece of text, so all gendered words are swapped - "man" is swapped with "woman", "she" is swapped with "he", etc. But there is an ambiguity as to ...