Hi Henry, No, on the contrary... I just think it may be a while before we can get contributors. NLP takes time to absorb the real power of the technology. We had one develop an HTML finder for names and addresses for a Rolodex type application. I'm in the process of developing a different kind of document comparison application. Others just use the library as is to parse text and report on the tagged sentences for trying to determine context and meaning of sentences. The possibilities are endless.
I really don't think there are bad contributors; because anyone willing to contribute is worth the effort they put into the project. I just don't think this is the kind of project anyone can jump in and start contributing to in less than 8 hours. True we need to beat the drums a bit. James On 5/31/2011 11:00 PM, Henry Saputra wrote: > 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 >> > >
