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Penn Treebank ProjectAugust 21, 2008
Here's an interesting project, called the Penn Treebank Project. The Penn Treebank Project annotates naturally-occuring text for linguistic structure. Most notably, we produce skeletal parses showing rough syntactic and semantic information -- a bank of linguistic trees. We also annotate text with part-of-speech tags, and for the Switchboard corpus of telephone conversations, dysfluency annotation. We are located in the LINC Laboratory of the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania.Also: CC Coordinating conjunction RP Particle
CD Cardinal number SYM Symbol
DT Determiner TO to
EX Existential there UH Interjection
FW Foreign word VB Verb, base form
IN Preposition/subordinate VBD Verb, past tense
conjunction
JJ Adjective VBG Verb, gerund/present
participle
JJR Adjective, comparative VBN Verb, past participle
JJS Adjective, superlative VBP Verb, non-3rd
ps. sing. present
LS List item marker VBZ Verb, 3rd ps. sing. present
MD Modal WDT wh-determiner
NN Noun, singular or mass WP wh-pronoun
NNP Proper noun, singular WP$ Possessive wh-pronoun
NNPS Proper noun, plural WRB wh-adverb
NNS Noun, plural `` Left open double quote
PDT Predeterminer , Comma
POS Possessive ending '' Right close double quote
PRP Personal pronoun . Sentence-final punctuation
PRP$ Possessive pronoun : Colon, semi-colon
RB Adverb $ Dollar sign
RBR Adverb, comparative # Pound sign
RBS Adverb, superlative -LRB- Left parenthesis *
-RRB- Right parenthesis *
* The Penn Treebank uses the ( and ) symbols,
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This is all stuff I need to get my head in to. Interesting language parsing article on CodePlexAugust 21, 2008
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/englishparsing.aspxThis is quite an interesting looking article about natural language parsing. Simon Whitfield
August 20, 2008
A couple of nights ago, I was sure to tune in via cbc.ca to watch the men's Olympic triathlon. As I watched the bike race, I was pleased to see Simon Whitfield's name. Eight years have passed since Simon won the gold in Sydney, so it was nice to see that after all that time he was in there. As the run got going, he was noticeably absent from the front of the pack, and yet, the top 20 runners were all pretty close, so it was hard to know how things would shake up.
Before long, Simon showed up towards the front and things got really exciting. As the leaders got closer and closer to the end of the race, I couldn't believe my eyes: He was still close by the front and sticking with them! I noticed that my heart rate seemed elevated, so just for fun I measured my heart beats in 10 seconds and determined that my heart rate was 120 bpm! Wow!
With only a couple of kilometers left to go, it looked like Simon was starting to drift back. My heart sank a little.
And then, unbelievably, Simon surged. He grabbed his hat, gave it a fling, and poured out his heart. I was speechless, sitting there in tremendous, excited anxiety as Simon simply ran past everyone and into first place. I measured my heart rate again and this time it came out at 150 bpm! That's how fast my little ticker goes when I'm out running! Too funny.
Even though Simon was passed in the last few seconds by the German, the finish for me was still sweet. I'm so proud of Simon for pulling off an epic finish like that. (And watching the German sprint as he did was pretty spectacular)
Update: Apparently Simon Whitfield's sister is a runner at an Ottawa branch of the Running Room, and they set up a big TV and cheered him on as a group. Very cool! :)
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