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Is there something along these lines but in open source? I have been dreaming of having natural language querying combined with Freebase or such, and with computational in addition to pure data endpoints, to build a kind of open source Wolfram Alpha.


Python's Natural Language Toolkit is pretty cool: http://nltk.org/


Yup, we're on the JVM but I've heard nothing but good things about NLTK (and have been envious of some of the things it makes easy).


The University of Sheffield (Delver's home town!) maintains gate.ac.uk which offers a full-stack semantic text extraction engine. That's unlikely to get you to the stage we're aiming at though.


Yea my question was just a tangent, thanks for the info and all the best for your project! Is delver based on gate then or is it a completely separate project? Love to see this kind of application of academic research.


We have a lot of our own technology, but talk to WordNet, OpenNLP and the like in places.




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