Natural Language systems have evolved tremendously in the past few years from dealing only with small handcrafted examples to extremely large, real-world applications.
Part-of-Speech Tagging, Phrase Chunking and Named Entity Recognition with Python NLTK. Taggers and chunkers trained on treebank, brown, conll2000, ieer.
This page contains various evaluation benchmarks developed and released (as open source) by researchers working in the field of semantics (in no particular order). If you know of a resource that should be present here, please drop me an email.
On January 8, 1923, computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum, a pioneer in natural language processing and artificial intelligence, who later became one of artificial intelligence's leading critics, was born. In 1966 he published a simple program named Eliza, which involved its users in a conversation that bore a striking resemblance to one with a psychologist.