A Farmstead for NLP Facility Software Development
The nlpFarm is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) resource where
research prototypes can evolve into robust and useful open source. Our
farmstead collaborates under the OpenNLP initiative, in order
to make NLP research software more publicly available. The projects of
nlpFarm are mainly implemented in Java.
The projects at the nlpFarm inherit and refine software from
research projects such as the iNews Swedish
news reader (see picture). The nlpFarm was initially kindly hosted by
the SourceForge open
source development resource, but the latest repository and
website pages has now been moved to the server
http://herd.ida.liu.se. This change has been done for reasons
of practical day-to-day efficiency.
Aim and Motivation
The nlpFarm will contribute to an open source framework for
natural processing (NLP). The contributions uses Java as their
main programming language. However, other publicly available
languages may occur in projects, as long as the code include
wrappings as native Java entities (e.g. Perl, C or Prolog).
The nlpFarm aims at being a channel for research results to
transform into working software. This work includes both work on
Java library code and on working demos. In particular, we invite
doctoral students in Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and
Computational Linguistics to participate.
Project Background
The nlpFarm project is run in close cooperation with the
NLP research of NLPLAB , at Computer Science Department, Linköping university,
Sweden. The main initial sponsor of the nlpFarm was Vinnova, the Swedish Agency for
Innovation Systems, through the research project LATOS.
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