Category: nlp
#bnc #british national corpus #corpus #fixed expression #fixed phrase #idioms #oec #oxford english corpus #corpus linguistics #nlp
A while back I ran into this blog post and it made me wonder. I’m not a native speaker but the idiomatic phrases that they note as common don’t strike me as such. I don’t think I have ever encountered them very often in real dialogue.
The …
Category: nlp
#bllip #charniak #glarf #installation #parser #nlp
It seems that I keep getting handed buggy code to install. These are cases of research software where the developers didn’t make the effort to make sure their tool works on the platforms it should.
[GLARF][] (Grammatical and Logical Argument Representation Framework) is, in their words, “a typed feature …
Category: nlp
#compile #install #maxent #megam #nlp
MegaM is Hal Daumé III’s maxent (logistic regression, and much more) modeling software written in OCaml. It is feature-packed and seems to be used a lot, despite being slightly dated. NLTK is able to use it.
In order to compile it as of 2012, with the current version of …