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Subject: Natual Language Processing Tools
Category: Computers > Software
Asked by: knowser-ga
List Price: $50.00
Posted: 27 Dec 2003 10:38 PST
Expires: 26 Jan 2004 10:38 PST
Question ID: 290677
I'm looking for a list of Natural Language Processing Tools for Windows.
In particular, I'm interested in the tools that can convert paragraphs
of English text into "questions" and "answers" or "facts".

Request for Question Clarification by joseleon-ga on 27 Dec 2003 11:29 PST
Hello, knowser:
 I suggest you to take a look to VisualText:

VisualText overview
http://www.textanalysis.com/Products/Overview/overview.html

Allows you to integrate Natural Language Processing capabilities into
your applications. Please, let me know if you need further
information.

Regards.

Clarification of Question by knowser-ga on 27 Dec 2003 12:04 PST
Thank you, this is a good start. As a complete answer I need a list of
available tools so I can compare then to each other feature-wise and
price-wise. Thank you.

Request for Question Clarification by joseleon-ga on 27 Dec 2003 13:40 PST
Hello, knowser:

 There is a Natural Language Software Registry here:

Natural Language Software Registry
http://registry.dfki.de/

"The Natural Language Software Registry (NLSR) is a concise summary of
the capabilities and sources of a large amount of natural language
processing (NLP) software available to the NLP community. It comprises
academic, commercial and proprietary software with specifications and
terms on which it can be acquired clearly indicated."

It also features a search form which you can use to search for
software which works for Windows, has an specific license and
processes English language.

Also, there is a category for Natural Language tools on the Google Directory:

Computers > Artificial Intelligence > Natural Language > Tools 
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Artificial_Intelligence/Natural_Language/Tools/

It would be acceptable as an answer a list extracted from these two resources? 

Regards.

Clarification of Question by knowser-ga on 27 Dec 2003 14:29 PST
I would accept as an answer a compilation from these or other sources,
which lists the NLP software which:
a) available for Windows;
b) has User Interface (not interested in APIs or libraries);
c) processes English language;
d) supported commercially or otherwise (not obsolete and not a
"vaporware" neither);

The list needs to include: name, link to the web site, a short
description, price (if available).

For extra credit and tip include the indication of popularity of the
software collected from the independent (not company's web-site)
sources.

Thank you.

Request for Question Clarification by joseleon-ga on 05 Jan 2004 01:45 PST
Hello, knowser:
  It's very hard to compile such list because most (if not all) NLP
tools are APIs or Libraries to integrate in your own software. There
is no reason to develop a NLP tool to analize text if it's not for
demonstration purposes of the API/Library, in any case, here is a nice
web interface to a tool that can help you:

Try the EP4IR Grammar of English
http://www.cs.kun.nl/agfl/npx/try.html

It's also available for windows under the GPL license.

Regards.

Clarification of Question by knowser-ga on 05 Jan 2004 07:18 PST
Thank you joseleon.

Eventhough this is not what I initially wanted, you did the research
and deserve reimbursement for it. I lowered the Question price to $50.
I will accept as an answer a list of NLP software available for
Windows and supported at the present time commercially or otherwise.
(I dropped the requirement for User Interface). Thank you.

Request for Question Clarification by joseleon-ga on 06 Jan 2004 06:09 PST
Hello, knowser:
  
  I'm sorry, but I have only been able to find three tools that may
fit your needs, I have been looking all the tools listed at:
  
Natural Language Software Registry
http://registry.dfki.de/

and here

Computers > Artificial Intelligence > Natural Language > Tools 
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Artificial_Intelligence/Natural_Language/Tools/

And most of them are university projects, which are not very suitable
to get support, also, are not so specific to process language, but to
perform some of the steps to fully process a language, so I can only
post these results:

VisualText
http://www.textanalysis.com/index.html

Connexor
http://www.connexor.com/

AGFL
http://www.cs.kun.nl/agfl/
GPL License

I will understand if you want to cancel this question and post a new
one to see if another researcher comes up with more results.

Regards.

Clarification of Question by knowser-ga on 06 Jan 2004 06:24 PST
Thank you joseleon. Your dilligence and efforts brought the result,
which, while not exactly what I initially was looking for, is valuable
nevertheless. You deserve being paid for your work. I will accept your
last comment as an answer. Thank you.
Answer  
Subject: Re: Natual Language Processing Tools
Answered By: joseleon-ga on 06 Jan 2004 08:10 PST
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Hello, knowser:

  Thanks a lot to accept this answer, I hope to see you next time here
and I hope to be able to get better results for you.

I have been looking all the tools listed at:
  
Natural Language Software Registry
http://registry.dfki.de/

and here

Computers > Artificial Intelligence > Natural Language > Tools 
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Artificial_Intelligence/Natural_Language/Tools/

And most of them are university projects, which are not very suitable
to get support, also, are not so specific to process language, but to
perform some of the steps to fully process a language, so I can only
post these results:

VisualText
http://www.textanalysis.com/index.html

Connexor
http://www.connexor.com/

AGFL
http://www.cs.kun.nl/agfl/
GPL License

Regards.
knowser-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars
Thank you.

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