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Natural language processing (NLP): analyzing and generating text in human languages

Natural language processing (NLP) refers to the analysis of text written in human languages, covering grammatical analysis, understanding, generation, translation, etc.

A spell checker that matches against a pre-defined set of words doesn't qualify as NLP (see the tag instead), but most more advanced tasks do. This tag is for tasks related to text stored in text form; for speech recognition and synthesis, use the tags and instead.

Natural language processing is an advanced subject and most tasks will require some programming. See NLP on Stack Overflow.

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Converting a UTF-8 file to ASCII (best-effort)

I have a file in UTF-8 that contains texts in multiple languages. A lot of it are people's names. I need to convert it to ASCII and I need the result to look as decent as possible. There are many ways how to approach converting from a wider encoding…
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Is there a Unix command that searches for similar strings, based mostly on how they sound when spoken?

I have a file of names, and I want to search within it, not caring too much about whether I have spelled the name ( that I am searching for ) correctly. I know that grep has quite a bit of functionality to search for a whole slew of similar strings…
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How to make this conky (Conky Vision) use other language than English?

I want to use this conky script: Conky Vision But I don't want the days of the week to be displayed in English. When I change my locale to another language, the day of today is displayed in that language but the 5-day names from the lower part of…
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Frequency of words in non-English language text: how can I merge singular and plural forms etc.?

I'm sorting French language words in some text files according to frequency with a focus on insight rather than statistical significance. The challenge is about preserving accented characters and dealing with the article forms in front of vowels(l',…
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Text prediction in Linux while typing like on Android, iOS and Windows

I have noticed the utility of this feature while typing on Android devices (notably with Gboard virtual keyboard) The same is available on iOS, in iPhones and iPads. I don't mean the use of a virtual keyboard on Linux, but the presence of a…
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Linux Mint doesn't write Arabic letters

I installed arabic fonts for Linux mint and i can switch between arabic and English, but it seems that mint cannot write arabic letters for example renaming a file or writing in any text-editor, when typing in arabic nothing appears. Note that it…
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Where can I find a dictionary file of common words?

It's easy to generate a strong password quickly using the system dictionary: $ for i in {1..4}; do shuf --head-count=1 /usr/share/dict/words; done Amelanchier whitecup ankhs antispasmodics However, this isn't exactly the easiest list of words to…
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exp@@glibc_2.2.5 undefined reference

I've been trying to use the SVM-python implementation provided at tfinley.net. When I use the command make on the extracted directory, /usr/bin/ld: svm_light/svm_common.o: undefined reference to symbol…
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Indian Languages not available on Libreoffice Impress 5

I need to use Indian Language 'Marathi' to prepare a presentation. But there is no Marathi or Hindi to set as document language. Probably therefore even when I try to change the properties (e.g., font size) of the Marathi text I enter, things happen…
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How can I translate in the CLI an English word into a German one?

I want to write a Script that picks a random English word from /usr/share/dict/words, translates it into German, display both of them for a certain amount of time and repeat the process. I only know the beginning part and do not know how to use a…
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