11411 Group 6 Project. See NLP Project Page

• Daniel Sedra
• Stephen Bly
• Ryhan Hassan

• Thursday February 7, Stub Program (Ryhan) & Initial Plan (Daniel)
• Tuesday February 26, Progress Report 1 (Stephen)
• Thursday March 21, Progress Report 2 (Ryhan)
• Tuesday April 9, Dry run system
• Tuesday April 16, Project code due
• Tuesday April 30, Demos at Google
• Thursday May 2, Final Report

./ask article.txt nquestions

The asking program takes an

• article.txt containing a Wikipedia article and
• an integer nquestions.

./answer article.txt questions.txt

The answering program takes an

• article.txt containing a Wikipedia article and
• a textfile questions.txt containing one question per line.

chmod +x ask
chmod +x answer

See NLTK installation guide

First download setuptools, http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools

sudo sh Downloads/setuptools-...egg
sudo easy_install pip 
sudo pip install -U numpy
sudo pip install -U pyyaml nltk

python
>>> import nltk
>>> nltk.download()

Once the NLTK Downloader GUI pops up, download all to /Users/USERNAME/nltk_data