cl-nlp

CL-NLP is a Modern NLP toolkit built using Common Lisp.

CL-NLP aims to provide a comprehensive and extensible set of tools to solve natural language processing problems in Common Lisp.

The goals of the project include the following:

  • support for constructing arbitrary NLP pipelines on top of it
  • support for easy and fast experimentation and development of new models and approaches
  • serve as a good framework for teaching NLP concepts

It comprises of a number of utility/horizontal and end-user/vertical modules that implement the basic functions and provide a way to add own extensions and models.

The utility layer includes:

  • tools for transforming raw natural language text, as well as various corpora into a form suitable for further processing
  • basic support for language modelling
  • support for a number of linguistic concepts
  • support for working with machine learning models and a number of training algorithms

The end-user layer will provide:

  • POS taggers
  • constituency parsers
  • dependency parsers
  • other stuff (will be added step-by-step, suggestions are welcome)