I am trying to get the topic of a sentence, i.e what a sentence is talking about (not the grammatical subject which may be different). So far I have got: OpenNLP in Java which is giving me sentence detection, POS tagging, parsing, tokenizer and Name Finder. MatlParser,stanford Parser - which c...

I have heard time and again that languages will reject words and structures that are redundant. That is, for example, if though two words may seem like they are perfect synonyms (e.g., rotund and corpulent), we will find that they actually differ slightly in meaning or register. This seems to ma...