I had written a series of posts on my iLangGen framework last year. It aims to provide a flexible and expressive approach for building natural language generation systems. In today’s post, I would like to describe a concrete example of how iLangGen can be used for generating natural language text from structured data, aided by […]
About 10 days ago, I received an update for Mathematica. The latest version is 11.3.0. As usual, I looked through the list of new features in this release. There are several new features, but one of them attracted my attention immediately: There is a new function FindTextualAnswer that, given a piece of text and a question, can […]
According to Wikipedia, “A kangaroo word is a word that contains letters of another word, in order, with the same meaning. For example: the word ‘masculine’ contains the word ‘male’, which is a synonym of the first word; similarly, the word ‘observe’ contains its synonym ‘see’.” Interesting idea. The key point to note is that […]
Detecting sentiments and emotions in a piece of text are frequently performed activities in Text analysis. There are some API services available for this. For example, meaningcloud.com has an API for detecting sentiments in the text submitted to it. Another API service provider is aylien.com . Emotion detection for text is supported by qemotion.com. Because […]
I had earlier briefly talked about the Ilexicon project that I have been working on for some time now. The goal is to build an intelligent dictionary that will come in handy while implementing NLP applications such as recognizers and generators. In today’s post, I want to demonstrate some cool features available in iLexicon. At present iLexicon […]
If you are into writing poems, stories or essays, or you just have a fascination for words, I encourage you to take a look at Datamuse. Recently I was studying about the structure of various poetic forms, and in the process of browing different sites, I stumbled upon Datamuse. I found it to be pretty […]
In the previous post I showed how we can use Mathematica to analyse screenplays, and gave some interesting statistics about the various characters and scenes from the movie The Prestige. In today’s post, I want to continue that discussion by sharing some more statistics, and then look at another movie, The Bourne Ultimatum. We concluded […]
I have a close relative who is an aspiring movie screenplay writer. During one of our recent meetings, he shared with me with a lot of interesting information about screenplay writing and its challenges. He even lent me a few good books to read further. One of the books is Essentials of Screenwriting by Richard […]
constexpr if is another nice little feature in C++17, which significantly simplifies the way we code, especially in the context of templates. In this article, I will briefly talk about this feature and look at some examples. constexpr if is a variant of the standard if statement we have had all along. The primary difference […]
In the previous two posts, I talked about std::variant<> and std::optional<>. Today, I want to take up std::any for discussion. The type any (implemented by the class any) allows a variable to hold a single value of any type. More interestingly, the type of the value held by a variable of type any can even […]
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