TinyTM

Link: http://tinytm.sourceforge.net/en/index.html
Intro: TinyTM - Open-Source Translation Memory

Alternative to Amazon Mechanical Turk

Link: http://crowdflower.com/

Note: This online service is not restricted to US.

Data visualization tool

Link: http://www.drasticdata.nl/DDHome.php
Intro: some kinds of beautiful data visualization

(linking to http://newsmap.jp)

Java-based Wiktionary Library (JWKTL)

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

Intro: JWKTL (Java-based Wiktionary Library) is an application programming interface for the free multilingual online dictionary Wiktionary (http://www.wiktionary.org). JWKTL enables efficient and structured access to the information encoded in the English, the German, and the Russian Wiktionary language editions, including sense definitions, part of speech tags, etymology, example sentences, translations, semantic relations, and many other lexical information types. The Russian JWKTL parser is based on Wikokit (http://code.google.com/p/wikokit/).

Topic modeling packages

1) MALLET: http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/
2) TMT: http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/tmt/tmt-0.4/
3) GENSIM: http://radimrehurek.com/gensim/index.html

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.

How to embed Java code in C++ code

Example Link : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7506329/embed-java-into-a-c-application

Sun's Guide: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/jni/

#include        /* where everything is defined */


int main() {

  JavaVM *jvm;       /* denotes a Java VM */

  JNIEnv *env;       /* pointer to native method interface */

  JDK1_1InitArgs vm_args; /* JDK 1.1 VM initialization arguments */

  vm_args.version = 0x00010001; /* New in 1.1.2: VM version */

  /* Get the default initialization arguments and set the class 

   * path */

  JNI_GetDefaultJavaVMInitArgs(&vm_args);

  vm_args.classpath = ...;

  /* load and initialize a Java VM, return a JNI interface 

   * pointer in env */

  JNI_CreateJavaVM(&jvm, &env, &vm_args);

  /* invoke the Main.test method using the JNI */

  jclass cls = env->FindClass("Main");

  jmethodID mid = env->GetStaticMethodID(cls, "test", "(I)V");

  env->CallStaticVoidMethod(cls, mid, 100);

  /* We could have created an Object and called methods on it instead */

  /* We are done. */

  jvm->DestroyJavaVM();

}