[Lexicog] CC: Powerful but complex (was Re: Secondary entries (was Re: [Lexicog

[Vincent `Bentong` S. Isles]

Greg,

Thanks for this information. I'm downloading NLTK right now and I will
check it out tonight.

I've used Python for my work on the Cebuano Wikipedia, but I could not
say I'm further than "basic" level :)

--Bentong Isles

--- In lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com, Greg Aumann <Greg_Aumann at ...>
wrote:
>
> Vincent `Bentong` S. Isles wrote:
> > I agree with you on both counts (power and complexity), but I am only
> > happy with the power and not with the complexity :).
> > 
> Another option to using CC to manipulate toolbox databases in useful
> ways is to use the toolbox module of the Natural Language Toolkit. This
> involves programming in the Python programming language. Few people
> outside of SIL know CC but Python is pretty widely known in computing
> circles. This means you probably will have a wider pool of people that
> you can call on for help. If you have ever done any programming then
> Python is pretty simple to learn.
> 
> Natural Language Toolkit is found here http://nltk.sourceforge.net/
> A tutorial introduction to the toolbox module is
> http://nltk.sourceforge.net/lite/doc/en/data.html (skip down to 13.4
> Processing Toolbox Data).
> There is further documentation in the api documentation but begin with
> the tutorial.
> 
> Greg
>




 
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