Identifying tense of a sentence

Dear Kilian:

I was wondering whether you have suggestions about how to identify tense [past, present and future] of a phrase or even a sentence.  

Thanks

PS:  You can assume that I have used the requisite nodes to extract sentence or phrase.  Language of text is English.

 

Hi SridharVenu,

there is no dedicated node to do that. I would try to do pos tagging and filter out all terms but the verbs. Then try to identify the ending of the verbs ("ed" for past tense, "ing" for infinitive and so on) by using regular expressions. This would work of course only for regular verbs. For irregular you would need a dictionary.

Cheers, Kilian

Dear Kilian:

Thanks for your response and sorry to revert back to this issue late / again.

Whereas I could carry out what you have suggested using the POS tagging and filtering, I would appreciate if you could provide some pointers for building the dictionary that you have referred.  Are there ready dictionary list of words?  Has anyone implemented this combination that I could benefit from.  My goal is to predict at least the simple tenses viz. past, present and future with reasonably high degree of accuracy.

Thanks

Cheers

Hi Sridhar,

I don't have a dictionary for english irregular verbs including tenses. However, I found this page:

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/irregular-verbs/

while googeling for "english dictionary irregular verbs"

https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=english+dictionary+irregular+verbs&start=10

Cheers, Kilian

Dear Kilian:

Is there a way in which rules developed under JAPE be executed on texts contained in a column in KNIME 2.11?

There is a readily available Verb Group Chunker developed in JAPE, which I wish to executed on a column of texts and hence the query.

Thanks in anticipationl

Sridhar

 

Hi Sridhar,

there is no dedicated node to apply JAPE rules on documents. There is also no node for verb or noun phrase chunking / tagging. You would need to implement that yourself. However, implementation of a tagger node is not that hard if you know how to code Java. Here is a tutorial: http://tech.knime.org/for-developers-integration-of-custom-tagger

Cheers, Kilian

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