Show HN: Delver, a natural language interface to your app

Re:Show HN: Delver, a natural language interface to your app by phreeza on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @05:00AM (#5360871)

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.

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Re:Show HN: Delver, a natural language interface to your app by DanielRibeiro on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @05:07AM (#5360886)

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

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Re:Show HN: Delver, a natural language interface to your app by thom on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @05:44AM (#5360991)

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).

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Re:Show HN: Delver, a natural language interface to your app by thom on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @05:05AM (#5360879)

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.

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Re:Show HN: Delver, a natural language interface to your app by phreeza on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @05:19AM (#5360920)

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.

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Re:Show HN: Delver, a natural language interface to your app by thom on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @05:43AM (#5360990)

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

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