robert1ridley / nlp-first

This project is a dictionary lookup that will return Chinese translations and part-of-speech tags for English queries. The program also incorporates a rule-based stemmer so that results for words with grammatical suffixes are also be returned. For example, a search query of 'studying' will additionally return results for 'study'.

Stemmer

This project is a dictionary lookup that will return Chinese translations and part-of-speech tags for English queries. The program also incorporates a rule-based stemmer so that results for words with grammatical suffixes are also returned. For example, a search query of 'studying' will additionally return results for 'study'.

Requirements

• Python version: 3.5.1

Start Developing

After cloning the repository:

• Setting up the environment：

  • cd nlp-first
  • Create a virtual environmnet: python3 -m venv virtual-environment
  • cd virtual-environment/bin
  • Enter source activate to start the virtual environment
  • cd ../.. (to return to the nlp-first folder)
  • Install the project dependencies：pip install –r requirements.txt

• Start the program:

  • Ensure that you are inside nlp-first and that your virtual environment is running
  • Enter python __main__.py
  • Following the prompt in the terminal, enter an English word. The program will then output the results.
  • To stop the program, enter 1.
  • Deactivate your virtual environment by entering deactivate