HI James, Are you worried about contributions that would not help the project to be better?
I think as incubator project, it needs to attract more interest and good contributions to grow the committers and community of the project. - Henry On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:35 PM, James Kosin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/31/2011 1:22 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: >> Folks, >> >> I just had a look at the commit history, and there are very few people >> making very many commits. In fact, the #1 committer is rather far >> ahead even of the #2 committer. >> >> This is not a recipe for a successful escape from the incubator. >> Writing code is wonderful and all that, but if you want to be a TLP, I >> would advise you to put some effort into marketing and attracting more >> participants. >> >> --benson > Benson, > > The landscape is a bit daunting currently. Hopefully it will change as > we add support for the open model architecture and allow easy > integration of different neural training networks into the landscape. > More than just a perception and maxent, not that there is anything wrong > with them. > > I currently, am working on my thesis; so, don't have too much time to > spend on the project at current. I have been only a recent addition > with some of the items I've found in the architecture ... OpenNLP is > still growing as far as projects go and it may take us a while to catch > up. > > Jorn currently has been the large pusher of changes recently; however, > Jason is also a large contributor. I'm sure the list is a lot bigger in > the large scale; however, the area of NLP is a bit new/old and requires > a lot of groundwork. I think, most miss the mark what the real power of > NLP actually is other than finding text in a large document, or telling > what form of speech is being used in a paragraph. > Most of the libraries here are useful to many; however, the real power > comes when integrating with a real Human-computer interface using > natural language understanding. In theory, with the right tools, the > computer will be able to read a book and understand the content and > extract ideas and thoughts from the document easily and be able to > understand them. > > I'm all for recruiting more help; but, the real question is are there > people willing to take on the challenge of the real landscape? > > James > -- Thanks, Henry
