Natural Language Processing

[Stephen Burke]

Thanks for the tip, Scott.
Apparently the traffic you're referring to was before I got here,
but I'm always psyched to taste new (GNU) flavors,
especially ones I've never heard of before.
Downloading it now...

S.

Scott Lawton wrote:

> I remember some time ago there was quite a bit of traffic in the list 
> from someone regarding natural language software.
> I found this in the Morphix derivatives list, and thought it might be 
> of interest.
> Quote from the page:
>
> Morphix-NLP is a Live CD Linux distribution with a rich collection of 
> Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. Though the field of 
> NLP has undergone decades of intensive research, software designed in 
> the NLP community are often scattered around the net and are not known 
> by the larger computer user community. Consequently, most NLP software 
> can not be found in mainstream distributions even years after the 
> first public release.
>
> The purpose of this CD is twofold:
>
>    * In the first place, it tries to break the software acquisition and
>      installation barrier facing many researchers and students in the
>      NLP community by providing most NLP related software on a single
>      Live CD.
>    * In the second place, the CD can be used to promote Natural
>      Language Processing among average computer users. Simply plugging
>      the CD into cd-drive and watching some NLP applications in action,
>      most users will get some knowledge of Natural Language Processing
>      and what NLP can do.
>
> The link:
> http://morphix-nlp.berlios.de/
>