nlp_playtime_2

nlp_playtime_2.rb

# Instructions for OSX likely to be brew install based, have not tried

# $ sudo apt-get install libtool
# $ sudo aptitude install liblink-grammar4-dev
# runs on regular ruby not jruby-1.6.5 (tested)
# $ gem install linkparser

# set putty or whatever to width of 128
dict = LinkParser::Dictionary.new( :screen_width => 128 )
sent = dict.parse( "People use your mom for all kinds of nifty things." )
puts sent.diagram

#
#    +-----------------------------------Xp----------------------------------+
#    |                +-------MVp------+                                     |
#    |                +----Os----+     +-----Jp-----+     +------Jp-----+    |
#    +----Wd---+--Sp--+     +--D-+     |     +--Dmc-+--Mp-+    +----A---+    |
#    |         |      |     |    |     |     |      |     |    |        |    |
#LEFT-WALL people.p use.v your mom.f for.p all.a kinds.n of nifty.a things.n .

sent.words
# => ["LEFT-WALL", "People", "use", "your", "mom", "for", "all", "kinds", 
# "of", "nifty", "things", ".", "RIGHT-WALL"]

sent.verb
# => "use"

sent.subject
# => "people"

sent.object
# => "mom.f"
# WTF!!!  What is this .f crap?

# hey, pretty cool otherwise.


# $ gem install linguistics
require 'linguistics'
Linguistics::use( :en )
Linguistics::EN.has_link_parser?
# => true  :)
Linguistics::EN.has_wordnet?
# => false  :(

text = "Stimpy had a slice of bacon and soon he died of happiness."

text.en.sentence.linkages.collect {|l| l.verb}
# => ["had"]

text.en.sentence.linkages.collect {|l| l.nouns}.flatten
# => ["slice", "bacon", "happiness"]

text.en.sentence.linkages.collect {|l| l.verb}.first.en.infinitive
# => "have"

# or way easier:
text.en.sentence.nouns
=> ["slice", "bacon", "happiness"]