I'm a newbie to windows 8 programming, C# and NLP.
I'm looking for a library that allows me to use NLP in windows 8.
I found SharpNLP but it is very poorly documented with no tutorials. I've also come across the Antelope framework but this seems to have even worse documentation.
Is there any resource that'll help me (either tutorials or a better documented framework)?
SharpNLP looks fine. It's the port of the OpenNLP, so you can probably just read the OpenNLP's documentation.
There is also Lucene.Net (a .Net version of Lucene)
It's a search engine and (I guess) should have some NLP inside. I'm not entirely sure though.
Depending on what you are trying to achieve, these libraries are available for C# and might be useful. However, I'm not sure if they work in Metro apps.
Proxem
AlchemyAPI
There isn't much in C#. I recommend Java. There are a ton of Java libraries that do NLP and they all work fine in Windows. Plus, Java isn't that much different from C#, and your code will also run on *nix if you need it to. See:
http://opennlp.apache.org/
Which NLP toolkit to use in JAVA?
NLP Library for Java Programming Language
Related
Converting python to C# is an option. Are there any ready-made converters to do this? Or are there any other ways to realize a uwp app from a python code? You help is very much appreciated.
There is a command line tool available on GItHub for this -
https://github.com/uxmal/pytocs
By the way you should ask these type of question first to google :P
There is IronPython, which is .NET implementation of Python 2.7 (http://ironpython.net/). I would venture if you start your Main() function as C# code, but transfer control to embedded IronPython interpreter, and continue with Python, it might work. Not all Python library would be available, I believe, due to sandboxing requirements of the UWP.
I think your best bet would be converting, and then learning a little. Based on the difficulty and how many different or new things you need to learn to alter the app, you should maybe just consider learning the language basics and then go from their creating it in C#, You'll gain some skills in another language. Who knows maybe like it more.
You could try one of many other converters, to another language that works or even convert to a language to convert. There is a C++ converter of some kind that may be a bit better, and then I guess perhaps you could convert from their with other tools, seriously may work better. More things are out their for C++ than C# and considering the commonalities, I bet a decent converter exists. Maybe convert to C or C++ or even Javascript because they have good conversion tools. With Java Script it would be kind easy to convert and learn a tiny bit to fix if you have a converter to C#.
Otherwise converter between the two Python and C# isn't a main priority for many people, if anyone at all. Since they are so similar yet the Syantax is so different, it must be hard to create, and usually people stick with one or the other, or learn both because they do a lot of Object Oriented Code. I mean just Syntax needs to be learned. Also the modules mentioned or packages probably wont ever convet to C#. I'm pretty sure they would just need to build the packages from the ground up for C#, witch is possible.
Is Python able to build universla windows apps?
The short answer: just for IOT devices. And the suggested programming language are C++, C#, Microsoft Visual Basic, and JavaScript within UWP. You could only build Python-based background applications on Windows 10 IoT Core devices with pyuwpsdk.vsix.
I love Clojure. It is by far my favorite language.
I've just found Xamarin, which allows you to have cross-platform apps, making full use of native libraries. The language used with it is C#.
Now I'm wondering if there is any way to program the majority of my Xamarin apps in Clojure (CLR), instead of C#.
So, Clojure CLR will let you use any libraries it can load. For example, I've loaded the Oracle.DataAccess libraries, and the NLog libraries into Clojure CLR, so it's theoretically possible to load the Xamarin libraries the same way:
;;; not sure which library you want to include, using this as a placeholder
(assembly-load-from "C:/Path/To/Xamarin.Core.dll")
That being said, Xamarin itself appears to also be an IDE, and a set of build tools on top of their own proprietary libraries and build tools, so it may not be possible to fully integrate the two. Also, I think Xamarin works purely with C#, so coding in Clojure is probably not possible...directly.
What you can do is create some libraries in Clojure CLR, and compile them down to DLLs, which you can then link to, so you can build the bulk of your logic in Clojure, and then create some simple C# wrappers that your Xamarin app consume.
I'd love to hear back on what you try, and whether or not you're successful doing this.
Best of luck!
Possibly yes in Android, but in the case of iOS I would say it's not likely, because the latter is a platform which has a lot of limitations around generated code, reflection, and the like. And Clojure being dynamically typed has high chances of being affected.
Honestly, the Clojure in the .NET world would fit more with F# (also functional, immutable by default, etc), which is a language that has just been adopted as official by Xamarin (meaning you can use it in Android and iOS, and Mac).
It's also statically typed (as opposed to Clojure) so this may mean that it's also faster. Give it a try!
I have done a lot of research regarding this issue. but i am still confused in choosing the right programming language. I wanted to convert my system which is programmed using C# to a cross platform system. Even though c# is an cross platform language the mono project is not successful according to my research.
Please give me your suggestions to this problem? I believe c++ and java will be an ideal programming language but java doesn't provide good GUI and if i choose c++ i will get stucked when converting my dll to c++.
Please provide your suggestions. Thank you.
Since Java syntax is a lot like C# syntax it would be easier to convert the code to Java. And there are actually some nice GUI libraries for Java.
See which-gui-library-is-the-best-in-java (Deleted in the meantime but Swing and SWT were favoured there)
I don't know what you mean by a good GUI, but you could use SWT which gives native integration to file/Open dialog boxes etc, rather than using the Java ones.
Of course a lot depends on how cross paltform you need it to be. Some devices only support C.
"cross platform" is not a fixed term. For example: Using the Eclipse RCP you have SWT on board. Your code uses the RCP stuff and would be platform neutral. But the embedded SWT libs would require either per-platform installable packages or one big package containing the SWT libs for all supported platform. If this is OK for you, you could use Java+SWT+(anything else you want) and have nice GUIs.
There is NO truly cross-platform language or technique. Yes, Java and Python can provide some abstraction over a platform... But everything stuck if only you add ":" to your file-name.
I mean, creating a software that is truly runs on many platform is FAR more than only choosing between Java, C# and C++. If one developed such software, one would understand me...
There is NO problems with Mono if you consider Mono as a target platform from the beginning. The most problems with mono happens when something is already written in .NET without ever aimed to be run on Mono. In this case there could be problems. If you bare in mind Mono from the beginning it is still the excellent platform.
As something that wasn't suggested here yet, I could refer you using python with Glide as cross-platform solution of creating applications with GUI.
Or you can see the Vala GObject system. Which syntax is really C# alike.
I’d like to develop an application with a complex GUI (combobox with animation, charts with spline, transparent layers, …). I have good experience with C# 2.0 and I’m studying WPF, but I read that, unfortunately, there is no plan to port WPF to Mono.
If I stick with C# and create custom GUI controls using OpenGL (via OpenTK), I feel it will be a hard work (integration with GTK#, debugging, hard to use to design forms).
I can use Java (with JOGL), but I’m not very skilled with it, and I don’t know about performance issues.
Last option is C++, but I have to do a big revision (years since last time I used it), and I find it hard to develop GUI and portable applications in C++. (Maybe I’m wrong! Still, I’m quite afraid to develop such complex application with this language.)
What is your advice? Had I better choose C# + OpenTK, Java + JOGL, or return to C++?
I would go with Qt. Take a look at http://qt.nokia.com/products/ . If you are afraid of C++ (but there is no reason to be afraid of it), you can try with Java Swing. I think that those are the best options to go with multi platform desktop GUI development.
I would suggest Mono and GTK#. Developing apps with .Net is far more effective than doing it in C++ vanilla. Sure, you have to stick with C# 3.0 and .Net 2.0 (some features from 3.5 is implemented, like LINQ). But it still gives you a lot more than C++ with, for instance QT, would give you.
Go C# for productivity. Nothing against C++ but it's a bit verbose.
As for the GUI library, I think WinForms used to work on Mono. Alternatively, GTK#.
I would not suggest using wpf for it is a platform dependant platform. Silverlight might be a better option.
But if you are developing a web application, jquery would be a nice option you also might consider adobe flex and adobe air; http://www.adobe.com/products/air/
Does multi-platform have to include iDevices? Can it be on the web? Those are 2 questions you have to answer first.
If you can live without iPad/iPhone suppport, then Flex/Flash/Air is good option for highly graphical things. It is multi-platform for sure and easily integrates to the web. Probably your best option for this case with the limited details given.
Qt could work for you as well, although I can't say for sure if it's graphic library will make it easy. I've personally never worked with it, so other would have to answer that. But since it is in C++, you could use other libraries as well.
Java Swing sounds rough to me for this complex of a GUI. Making some basic stuff isn't too bad, but if you are expecting an experience like with C# I think you will be frustrated. Just a personal opinion of course.
Lastly, if it can be a web app, why not stick with C# and Silverlight? A .NET solution may work well for you since you are already learning it.
Silverlight runs on Windows/Mac/Linux and some handhelds, and is being ported to more handhelds. I believe Silverlight will ultimately be ported to every popular device.
Silverlight is:
Much, much more powerful than Flex/Flash/Air.
Much, much more powerful than Qt.
Ridiculously more powerful than GTK+ or GTK#.
Ridiculously more powerful than JOGL.
Silverlight has all of the features you have requested.
Silverlight works very well with C#, which is a much more productive language to work in than C++.
Silverlight is basically a very large subset of WPF, so if you already know WPF, you already know Silverlight.
Unless you absolutely require iPhone/iPad support I think the decision is perfectly obvious.
See this comparison of WPF and Cocoa to get some feeling of how WPF/Silverlight compares with the likes of Qt, Flash/Flex/Air, and GTK#, all of which use a primitive WinForms-like object model similar to the one used by Cocoa.
At my day job (a well-known microprocessor company) we develop complex engineering apps with Java, Eclipse RCP, and Java OpenGL. Performance is good -- we can easily get many millions of polygons/second and up to 100 frames/second. The SWT widgets in Eclipse are fast enough where we haven't had to render any custom controls with JOGL.
I've got a set of tutorials that shows how to get started with this kind of programming. The series starts with http://wadeawalker.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/tutorial-a-cross-platform-workbench-program-using-java-opengl-and-eclipse/.
First, don’t use C# for anything that should be portable. Mono is a bad option for GUI for two reasons:
Mono goes always several steps behind .NET.
Mono does not support WPF, so the only way to develop GUI is using something like GTK#.
My personal opinion – use C++. It would give you very good portability and independence.
You have two options:
Qt4 – very good GUI toolkit, makes GUI development very easy, and highly portable.
GTKmm – also very good toolkit, but it feels less natural on Windows.
Also, Java has Swing toolkit that comes with JDK and is available on all Java platforms, even very strange ones like OpenVMS.
I want to learn C# because... It seems to be a pretty marketable language these days. More than C, not so much as PHP/MySQL in my area, but I'd rather be a software developer than a web developer. Anyways, I'm running linux, and I have no hope of working on a windows platform until I buy a new computer. So, are there any drawbacks to learning C# under linux? If so, are there any good lessons online for doing such a thing? Any good tutorials online for learning C# in general?
update
so what I'm getting is that the main drawback is that although the full C# language spec is implemented in mono, the full .Net framework isn't. But, until I can get a new system and run windows, I guess lacking the full framework will have to do.
The language spec is fully implemented but the framework itself is not. So learning C# the language will be no different (ignoring the benefits of using visual studio as your IDE). Writing against the framework will be a bit different.
edit> It also depends on what kind of programming you intend to do. Much of the parts of mono that aren't complete are also often edge cases for beginners that you aren't likely to run into. So if you're just learning C#, there's a very good chance that you won't come across the parts of the framework that haven't been implemented yet (and I mean yet, they are very fast at updating mono from what I've seen so far, so by the time you're ready to really explore the framework and all that it entails, there's a good chance that it might be completed by then)
learning C# on linux may actually be good, when you start doing it on windows, you will know both. The IDE will not be as modern, but I'll bet there are not many people that can do it on both.
You'll be able to concentrate on the actual C# language and you can learn the microsoft IDE when you get to use C# on windows.
The major drawbacks that I see are:
The latest .NET versions are not supported
Different tools between Mono and Visual Studio
In spite of that, I think you can learn a lot about C# on Mono.
Any good tutorials online for learning C# in general?
Here's a tutorial I wrote:
http://www.csharp-station.com/Tutorial.aspx
Feedback has indicated that all of the code in the tutorial runs fine on Mono.
Joe
Learning the language should not hurt, I would not depend on it to land you a job. However, keep in mind that many of the runtime services that are accessed via C# may not be available. Knowledge of those services is perhaps just as, if not more, important the language itself.
The main problem with C# on Linux is that your development system will not be as good, in most people's estimation. But you may get really good at vi(1)...
On MonoDevelop you won't have all the newest features of the .NET framework, it's somewhere between 2.0 and 3.5.
It supports C#3.0 though.
Mono is gaining traction very, very quickly. I've heard rumblings that MS is silently supporting Mono (see their approach with getting SL to run on Linux). In some cases, mono actually outperforms .net on a windows based server.
The downside would be the IDE and features, as many have already mentioned. Visual Studio is by far the best IDE out there.
It does support Asp.Net MVC IIRC though.
Mono overcomes the single biggest drawback to using .NET from Microsoft for many developers, the requirement to run on the Windows platform. By bringing the shared source release of the .NET Framework to multiple platforms and then building an open source project around extending it, The Mono Project has made the strengths of .NET available to a wide range of developers. The ability to develop using a variety of languages, all using a common interface and deployable on a number of platforms is a very compelling development strategy.
As far as the web services aspects of Mono are concerned, nearly all of the Framework is complete meaning a developer can begin developing web services today using Mono. Mono features nearly complete implementations of ASP.NET, ADO.NET and Web Forms, along with almost all of the SYSTEM namespace. For more a detailed visit mono's official site,mono-project.com check out these articles on Cool Solutions for Developers:
Well there is nothing wrong if we learn something & probably we might end up improving it which will be more useful to the future users.Probably that is the power of open source.I think all developers will agree to this point :)