Archive for December, 2018

Natural Language Interaction with iLexicon Using LUIS

Written by on December 30, 2018 in LISP, Natural Language Processing, Programming with 0 Comments
Natural Language Interaction with iLexicon Using LUIS

Some time ago, I had written a series of articles on my iLexicon project. It is a Lisp package that supports many interesting queries on English words. When I was discussing this project with a client recently, she asked me if it was possible to query the system in natural language instead of through Lisp. […]

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Book Review: Real-Time C++

Written by on December 23, 2018 in Book Review, C++ with 0 Comments

Title: Real-Time C++: Efficient Object-Oriented and Template Microcontroller Programming Author: Christopher Kormanyos Publisher: Springer-Verlag Year: 2018 (Third Edition) It was the title of this book which caught my attention a few weeks ago and I decided to invest in it. I am not in to real-time software development these days, but I always welcome material […]

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Generating Poetry Using RiTa

Written by on December 16, 2018 in Natural Language Processing, Programming with 0 Comments
Generating Poetry Using RiTa

A few days ago, I came across a nice library called RiTa, which is described as a software toolkit for computational literature. Its two major features are text analysis and text generation.  The text analysis module parses given text to extract sentences, tokens, POS, stresses, and phonemes. There is also interesting functionality to conjugate verbs, […]

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Parsing Text with MeaningCloud’s Text Analytics API

Written by on December 9, 2018 in LISP, Natural Language Processing, Programming with 0 Comments
Parsing Text with MeaningCloud’s Text Analytics API

There is wide-spread interest in Natural Language Processing (NLP) today, and there are several API services available to cater to this demand. See this article for a fairly detailed list of services. All of them support multiple languages, including English. Today, I am going to share my experience in working with MeaningCloud’s Text Analytics API, […]

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Book Review: Functional Programming in C++

Written by on December 2, 2018 in Book Review, C++, Programming with 2 Comments

Title: Functional Programming in C++: How to improve your C++ programs using functional techniques Author: Ivan Cukic Publisher: Manning Publications Co. Year: 2019 This book came out recently, about a week ago. I bought it immediately, and when I started to read it, I couldn’t put it down! Very informative and well written. If you […]

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