bluestocking 0.1.0

An information extraction toolkit.

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This project depends on NLTK. You will need to install it before running these scripts.

To run tests:

python tests.py

To run factchecker demo, try this:

python factchecker.py “The sky is not blue.”

or this:

python factchecker.py “People never eat fish. Goldfish are unpopular.”

This test a document against the Simple English Wikipedia articles for each word in the tested document. Try replacing test-factchecker.txt with your own text file!

(Warning: documents with long sentences take longer to query)

Scripts included:

### parse.py

Defines Document class for wrapping raw text and Parser class for extracting Relations from a Document.

Relations encapsulate a semantically significant lexical cooccurence.

Documents have a method to turn them into Doxaments (see below).

### doxament.py

Defines a Doxament class. A Doxament contains many Relations. A Doxament may be queried for consistency with another Doxament. They may also be merged to form a more complete knowledge base.

### other

wikipedia.py and wiki2plain.py from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4460921/extract-the-first-paragraph-from-a-wikipedia-article-python