Try it out yourselfYou can try out Travellr's location extractor using our
online location web service, which also includes some debugging information about the word scoring. Travellr's location extractor is provided as a REST web service built on
Scala +
Step and deployed on
Jetty.
Further reading and tools:If you'd like to learn more about natural language processing, check out the following resources:
Learning Resources:
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NLTK Book (free & open, companion of the Natural Language Toolkit, an awesome introduction to NLP)
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Foundations for Statistical Natural Language Processing (Manning & Schuetze)
Libraries:
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OpenNLP (java, MaxEnt based, thread safe, what we presently use for sentence detection, tokenization, tagging and chunking)
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Stanford NLP Tools (java based, not thread safe)
Posted by Michael Shaw, Travellr.com
