NLTK vs MontyLingua Part of Speech Taggers

This is a comparison of the part of speech taggers available in python. As far as I know, these are the most prominent python taggers. Let me know if you think another tagger should be added to the comparison. MontyLingua includes several natural language processing (NLP) tools. The ones that I used in this comparison […]

Posted on March 28, 2009 at 10:23 pm by Joe · Permalink · 5 Comments
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Sort Optimization

This all started one night when I was in the #JRuby channel on irc.freenode.net.  A channel user was complaining about JRuby’s sorting algorithm being slow.  I thought to myself, I should be able to speed it up.  At the time I was thinking since sorting has been so well researched it’d likely be easy to […]

Posted on November 15, 2008 at 1:31 pm by Joe · Permalink · 3 Comments
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Ruby Shootout: Fasta

Lately, I’ve been looking at the shootout Ruby benchmarks. I’d gotten into a habit of checking them every few months, rooting for my favorite languages. Not really understanding why some didn’t have the greatest showing on there. When the people running it upgraded their hardware, it seems as though Ruby fell off the list. While […]

Posted on November 2, 2008 at 8:39 am by Joe · Permalink · 3 Comments
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