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
