Austin Frog

Project Description

An integrated suite of open source natural language processing (NLP) applications: this project seeks to identify and integrate the best of the many free NLP software packages available on the internet. In addition, the project provides essential documentation, tutorials, and guided exercises. NLPSuite enables students to learn about and use a variety of NLP applications without having to deal with their idiosyncracies and incompatibilities.

Tutorial chapters:

1. Getting Started
2. Tagging and Chunking
3. Working with Data
4. Machine learning: Classification
5. Language Modeling
6. Tips and Tricks
7. Internationalization
8. Further Explorations

Specific NLP task areas*:

Tokenization and sentence detection
Part-of-speech tagging
** Named entity recognition
Language modeling
Statistical modeling
** Parsing
** Speech recognition
** Speech synthesis

*Asterisks indicate task areas which have not yet been incorporated into the suite.