Useful NLP links and notes

Kinds of NLP and general background

Useful wikilinks for our context:

• NLP as a whole
• Knowledge extraction
• NL understanding

Cool projects:

• NELL
• Pheme

Good thorough courses freely available:

• Coursera Stanford NLP course, see also free slides and an important textbook
• NLP with Watson

Different popular toolkits for NLP

• CoreNLP: the main Stanford NLP tool in the context of a larger set of Stanford NLP toolkits like stanford NER etc
• NLTK: the main Python toolkit, see also this tutorial and this NER tutorial
• Pattern toolkit for Python
• opennlp
• PyNLP for Python
• NER tutorial for Linux in the context of a larger practical tutorial

Web APIs:

• Google natural language API
• opencalais (free registration required)

Restricted english

Two important projects:

• Attempto restricted english as intro use this talk
• Inform system for interactive fiction, see also an older book and this example

Old interesting projects:

• command talk
• Google "WITAS Multi-Modal Dialogue System"

An interesting tutorial:

• AMZI interactive fiction tutorial game with Prolog

Ontologies

Start looking at important general ontologies:

• Wordnet
• Teksaurus
• Conceptnet
• schema.org
• SUMO

Dialogue and pragmatics

• overview
• Grice dialogue maxims