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by deanclatworthy 3692 days ago
It's really nice to have access to these kinds of tools. I am sure some folks from Google are checking this, so thank you.

Analysis of the structure of a piece of text is the first step to understanding its meaning. IBM are doing some good work in this area. http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/demo/alchemylanguage

Anything in the pipeline for this project to help with classifying sentiment, emotion etc. from text?

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Yes, we derive syntactic meaning from grammatical structure. It's one thing getting a machine to understand grammar and another to get a human to understand. If anyone is interested, Doing Grammar by Max Morenberg is an excellent source of knowledge about grammar.[0]He approaches grammar very systematically which is helpful if people want to train machines.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Doing-Grammar-Max-Morenberg/dp/0199947...