Questions tagged [software]
Programs, apps, extensions, and web services designed for or used for language based tasks, problems and processing.
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Is it hard for software speech synthesisers to handle IPA? If so, why?
Yesterday on ELU, the IPA sequence ˌoʊkeɪˈhiːɹjəˌgoʊ was posted in a comment. I'm not very familiar with IPA, so I thought the easiest way to "decode" that would be through a software speech ...
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Are there guides to analysing phonetic data in R?
I need references like papers/articles/books by and for people who use R for analysing phonetic data. I have Harrington's (2008) Phonetic Analysis of Speech Corpora, and it's great, but a lot of other ...
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Markdown for linguistics?
Is there a Markdown dialect or other minimal markup language that is tailored to the needs of linguists (of all sorts)?
I would expect it do treat the following constructs:
An asterisk directly ...
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How can I differentiate between syllable-initial [ɣ] and [ə] using Praat or other software?
I am currently studying Amdo Tibetan. In this language the voiced velar fricative [ɣ] is reported to occur as the first sound in some syllable-initial consonant clusters. More specifically, this sound ...
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Are there any statistics or web services for n-grams of frequent English words?
I found this for six common subjects. But it doesn't contain the complete statistics about all common English words.
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IDE for context free grammars for natural languages?
Is there any such thing as a Integrated Development Environment for context free grammars (or any variant on a formal, machine parsable grammar) that target natural languages? The ones for BNF ...
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How to work on annotating AND sentence-aligning parallel texts?
There are plenty of software programs facilitating interlinear transcription (e.g. Toolbox, Fieldworks Language Explorer). There's also a number of tools that allow you to work on aligning parallel ...
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Software tools for transcribing speech
What is some good software I can use for listening to speech? I would like to be able to listen to a snippet of speech over and over again, and slow it down without changing the pitch, all with a ...
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Combinatory Categorial Grammar (комбинаторная категориальная грамматика) developments and lexicon for Russian language?
I am trying to apply Cornell Semantic Parsing framwork https://github.com/cornell-lic/spf (implementation of Combinatory Categorial Grammars CCG) to Russian language. This framework takes natural ...
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Online tool for IPA pronunciation synthesis
I've already found this tool from 0n0e.com but the problem is that it pronounces the words too quickly. Is there any other phoneme synthesis online which speaks a bit slower?
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sentiment analytics
I've recently been tasked with programming a web crawler that searches through news articles for certain keywords--company names, for example--and then tries to determine if the article has a positive ...
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Transcribing German written text to computer readable phonetic alphabet
I already found some programs that can transcribe text automatically but they don't comply with my requirements. I need:
A software that transcribes written text to IPA, SAMPA or some other phonetic ...
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Text Summarization Tool
I'm looking for tools I can use to perform text summarization. Specifically something I could use to summarize personal communication (i.e. email).
Preferably I'm looking for something open source ...
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Which is the hardest language for a software translator to translate into English? [closed]
Many people i see over online auction sites and such use software translators for their benefit, but sometimes the outcome can be somewhat curious. Are these inaccuracies caused by the use of informal ...
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Wordnet and Ontology software
Are there any software or tools for Ontology and WordNet development?
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metrical analysis software for ancient greek
Does anyone know any good metrical analysis software for ancient Greek? Which are the best ones and which are the most user friendly?
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Determining how similar audio is to human speech
I was suggested to cross post this question of mine from Stack Overflow. Hopefully my question is within the bounds of this question board!
I am searching for a method of determining the similarity ...
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How to generate grammatically correct sentences?
I'd like to give something like this:
# John # eat + past # apple
and get back the grammatically correct sentence:
John ate an apple.
Which software can I use for such generation?
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Are there any good open source speech to text trancription tools or programs?
I am working on a project which needs to convert a given speech (in an audio file,only speech no music and other stuffs) into text and later analyze that text.
It would be a great help if I could able ...
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Useful Features of Semantic Graphs
If this question is too general, please let me know, and I will revise it.
I am developing a program that measures all sorts of "features" of a sentence, everything from sentence length, to average ...
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Is there any IPA TTS software that also considers tone
I want to create audio files for a conlect of Chinese I am studying, and therefore tone is one aspect I have to consider. Many of the IPA to speech software I've seen so far don't consider tone (or ...
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Syntax tree software
Does anybody know a good software for creating syntax tree diagrams like this ?
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Academically reliable calculator of Gunning Fog Index
Gunning Fog Index is used to estimate the readability of a sentence. Is the website gunning-fog-index.com reliable for academic research purposes? If not, what software should I use?
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Open source probabilistic dialogue state tracker
Do you know of any simple (form filling) dialogue state tracking systems with a graphical model based dialogue state representation?
I'm looking for one to get familiar with the overall model and ...
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Correct verb for Text-To-Speech software action
If I want to describe the action that Text-To-Speech computer software does, what verb should I use?
"Pronounce" and "tell" seems like a verb for human action. "Read" may be correct but for software ...
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Looking for a Free Lexical Analyser
I need to do a quantitative analysis to a medieval text. I need to get some basic information like the total number of the words, their frequencies and the concordances.
Does anyone know about a ...
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Windows software to create concordances from .pdf and .txt files?
I am new to Stack Exchange, so if this question fits better on another board, please let me know.
I am looking for Windows-compatible software that will create a concordance from .pdf and .txt files. ...
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alternatives to flex and bison [closed]
Are there any software alternatives to Flex and Bison that are well documented and easy to install for Windows? I would like to exemplify some cases to my students, but I do not want to install a ...
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Negation detection software
I am looking for negation detection software or libraries. Linux, Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X are all OK. Any price and license is good too. I am mostly interested in the quality of the detection.
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C&C/Boxer Source Code
I’ve been trying to find C&C tools and Boxer online and found this link in many places (http://svn.ask.it.usyd.edu.au/trac/candc) but the link does not work for me. Is there another place to find ...
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Gir15 cuneiform is esh2 homograph?
I was unable to find a cuneiform for Sumerian (Akkadian?) ĝir15 (as in ki-en-ĝir15) in the unicode character database (cuneiform namelist) .. however, according to ePSD, it seems that it has the same ...
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How to type IPA quickly on Mac?
I want shortcuts (pre-existing or customised) for IPA symbols.
I've installed IPA Unicode keyboard, which works fine on notes/ google docs but not on pages. I don't have ms word.
Keyman does not come ...
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Software for finding syllogisms in treebank data?
Is there treebank search software that can locate a syllogism, identifying its major and minor premises and terms?
cf. Eyal Mozes, “A Deductive Database Based on Aristotelian Logic,” Journal of ...
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Is there relationship (and translation) between Link Grammars and Combinatory Categorial Grammars?
Is there relationship (and translation) between Link Grammars and Combinatory Categorial Grammars? Link Grammars have very unusual parse structure - links between words, but CCGs have parse trees. ...
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Combinatory Categorial Grammar developments and lexicon for German language?
I am trying to apply Cornell Semantic Parsing framework (implementation of Combinatory Categorial Grammars CCG) to the German language. This framework takes natural language texts, learns grammar and ...
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Which annotation software can I use to annotate scope and focus?
I'm looking for an annotation software (no matter which OS), which lets me annotate focus and scope, as user-friendly as possible, e.g., via console input, or via a graphical editor (mouse-supported). ...
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Dictionary building / corpus exploring software
What software do lexicographers use these days to manage and search corpora? Is there a standard solution used by most people, or does every dictionary commission their own software to suit their own ...
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With SSML phoneme tags using IPA phonetic symbols, how can I insert pauses to slow down pronounciation?
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For my text to speech engine (I use Cereproc, William Voice).
The engine can be used on the website here:
https://www.cereproc.com/
and it supports the ssml tags used in this question..
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Pronunciation software?
Do you know of any pronunciation or phonetics software that would be useful to ESL learners? I have read that software with spectrographs or xrays showing tongue placement are very effective. I am ...
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Software for pronunciation training with my own sound files [closed]
So, let's say I have several mp3 files with native speaker's pronunciation.
What I need is playing one of them, pronounce after it and so on with the next sound pattern. Then play all the sequence and ...
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Suggestion for software to analyze data from social media- please advise
I am searching urgent for a software that I can use to analyse corpora. In short, I would like to have a look at collocations, ellipsis, frequencies, concordances etc. I also want to search for themes ...
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How do I pronounce each syllable slowly from a word in audio?
any ideas?
Of a software that transforms the counting syllables slowly automatically from a word in audio at normal speed.
des-pa-ci-to please.
Suppose I want to do that with audios from this page
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Where can I find SPAD-T?
I am looking for an old program called SPAD-T that is still used for textual analysis. Can anybody tell me where to find it? Otherwise can anybody send me a copy of the software? It shouldn't be ...
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How can I extract the speech from one speaker in an audio file?
Assisting with a project and they need me to extract the speech from one speaker in an interview and make it its own audio file.
The audio I have are 1-1.5 hr interview recordings, and it is generally ...
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Plotting multiple pitch contours on a single graph
I am doing an experiment on Mandarin tone discrimantion and I would like to plot the tone contours of the speakers.
I know how to do it in Praat for every tone separately, (View & Edit -> Pitch ...
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Mandarin Chinese and Antconc
Can Antconc be used to build a corpus for Mandarin, Chinese? Specifically, could characters be recognized, or if one were to upload a pinyin text, could tones be displayed? Is this possible?
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Programming tools for exploring semantic relationships between words
By relationships I mean things like "hypernym", "hyponym", "synonym", "antonym".
I'm not quite sure what type of tool I'm after; I just want to "easily explore".
I discovered WordNet and the wn ...
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Useful software and/or "manual" method for data analysis in a stylistic study of transitivity (SFL)
What would be a useful software and/or systematic "manual" method for data analysis in a study of transitivity (Systemic Functional Linguistics) that would like to incorporate some kind of statistics ...
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GermaNLTK: not finding files [python]
Following the instructions of GermaNLTK I tried to install the german NLTK in Python. (I want to use the synsets for semantic-taging.)
But I couldn't find the files germanet.py and GermanetDBBuilder....
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What's the origin of the word "Wizard" in software terms? [closed]
I've been thinking about this for a while. In software you have bugs. From what I know this naming is used because someone had a problem once getting hardware to work due to an actual living bug in ...
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