Word/Phrase Aligner?

[klappy]

Are there any plans or interest in integrating a word/phrase aligner?

I'm not aware of any javascript based libraries that are available to integrate. I do have a background in creating and modifying aligners for various purposes in my previous field of custom machine translation engines and currently building aligners for Bible translation projects.

I have started a light weight proof of concept aligner that is 100% javascript, that will be open source, but wanted to explore the possibility of plugging into an existing nlp javascript community. I'm happy to learn your idea of structuring the external module to be consumed by "natural" and/or directly contribute to this project as I've found it to be the nlp framework with the most promising future.

[Hugo-ter-Doest]

I'm not aware of any plans for such functionality.

There are not a lot of requirements for integration. The main things are:

• You can create a folder under lib/natural with a title that makes sense: like alignment or machine_translation
• Write tests: we use jasmine-node, and tests are in the spec folder.
• Document the new module in README
• Add new dependencies to package.json. BUT: keep that to a minimum.

And please share what you already built. Maybe I can help to integrate it.

Hugo