CASMACAT

Link: http://www.casmacat.eu/index.php?n=Installation.HomePage
Intro: a CAT tool for MT

Assistant Tools for Scientific Paper Writing

1) PaperRater (online)
Link: http://www.paperrater.com/free_paper_grader

Intro: PaperRater.com is a free resource that utilizes Artificial Intelligence to help students write better. Our technology combines Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Computational Linguistics, and Data Mining to produce the most powerful automated proofreading tool available on the Internet today. PaperRater.com is used by schools and universities in over 46 countries to help students improve their writing and check for plagiarism.

2) SWAN (offline)
Link: https://cs.joensuu.fi/swan/index.html

Intro: This Swan - Scientific Writing AssistaNt - aims at helping writers with the content, not the grammar or spelling. It guides you towards known good scientific writing practices and helps your readers find your contribution. The tool was designed to help you with your writing, not to merely point out errors. Using the tool should be simple; just enter your text sections into the tool, optionally make some manual elaboration and click the "Evaluate" button. Once you have used the tool with one of your own scientific papers, do let us know how it has helped to you.

3) TBA

Wikipedia Extractor

Link: http://medialab.di.unipi.it/wiki/Wikipedia_Extractor

Intro: WikiExtractor.py is a Python script that extracts and cleans text from a Wikipedia database dump. The output is stored in a number of files of similar size in a given directory. Each file contains several documents in the document format.

Charset Detector Tool in Java

Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jchardet/
Intro: chardet is a java port of the source from mozilla's automatic charset detection algorithm.

RegEx online

Link: http://regex101.com/
Intro: a great online tool for testing your regular expression.
Complete Tutorial: http://www.princeton.edu/~mlovett/reference/Regular-Expressions.pdf

Pure for simple CSS

Link: http://purecss.io/
Intro: A set of small, responsive CSS modules that you can use in every web project.

pialign - Phrasal ITG Aligner

Link: http://phontron.com/pialign/

Intro: pialign is a package that allows you to create a phrase table and word alignments from an unaligned parallel corpus. It is unlike other unsupervised word alignment tools in that it is able to create a phrase table using a fully statistical model, no heuristics. As a result, it is able to build phrase tables for phrase-based machine translation that achieve competitive results but are only a fraction of the size of those created with heuristic methods.

*** Note: pialign can extract very compact phrase table directly from unaligned parallel data. This is may be very helpful for SMT system in mobile environment.

Tree visualization with Treebolic

Link: http://treebolic.sourceforge.net/en/index.html

Intro: Treebolic is a Java component (widget) whose purpose is to provide a hyperbolic rendering of hierarchical data.

A tree is rendered with nodes and edges but display space is subject to a particular curvature (hence the name) : more space is allocated to the focus node while the parent and children, still in the immediate visual context, appear slightly smaller. The grandparents and grandchildren are still visible but come out even smaller. As we move away from the focus node, less display space is allotted to the nodes, which gradually disappear towards the disk's border, as though the whole hierarchy were seen through a fisheye lens.

Wrapped as a Java applet, the Treebolic widget can be embedded in a web page. Nodes may then contain hypertext links and the browser to other web pages.

The tree is dynamic (animation brings the focus node to the center) and responds to user interaction.

It looks good. See an illustrating example in Vietnamese Wordnet at here.

Temporal Tagger HeidelTime

Link: https://code.google.com/p/heideltime/ 

Demo: http://heideltime.ifi.uni-heidelberg.de/heideltime/

Intro: HeidelTime is a multilingual, cross-domain temporal tagger developed at the Database Systems Reseach Group at Heidelberg University. It extracts temporal expressions from documents and normalizes them according to the TIMEX3 annotation standard. HeidelTime is available as UIMA annotator and as standalone version. HeidelTime currently understands documents in English, German, Dutch, Vietnamese, Arabic, Spanish and Italian.

Scientific Writing Assistant

SWAN: http://cs.joensuu.fi/swan/

Intro: This Swan - Scientific Writing AssistaNt - aims at helping writers with the content, not the grammar or spelling. It guides you towards known good scientific writing practices and helps your readers find your contribution. The tool was designed to help you with your writing, not to merely point out errors. Using the tool should be simple; just enter your text sections into the tool, optionally make some manual elaboration and click the "Evaluate" button. Once you have used the tool with one of your own scientific papers, do let us know how it has helped to you.

Nile - Syntax-based Word Alignment Tool

Link: https://code.google.com/p/nile/
Intro: Nile is a supervised, discriminative word alignment package that can make use of arbitrary and overlapping features

Word Alignment Visualization Tool

Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/demos/picaro/

Detection of near-duplicate documents

Link: https://github.com/vilda/shash/

Intro: A sample implementation of Charikar's hash for identification of similar documents.

Link: https://code.google.com/p/dkpro-similarity-asl/

Intro: DKPro Similarity is an open source software package for developing text similarity algorithms. The framework is designed to complement DKPro Core, a collection of software components for natural language processing (NLP) based on the Apache UIMA framework. By leveraging the power of the tools available in DKPro Core, it allows for a rich set of similarity computation operations, including the design of full-fledged language processing pipelines and fully customizable processing steps.