Yoshikoder

It seems the regressive imagery dictionaries for French and Portugese were not in good shape to import into the Yoshikoder.

Now they are.

Thanks to Sophie for pointing that out.

I’m happy to announce that after a gap of several months VBPro will again be available for download. I have taken over the task of distributing VBPro from Mark Miller. Thanks to Mark for making this possible.

Mark and I continue to work on the details of opening VBPro’s source code, so this distribution is of binaries (executables) only. Nevertheless it’s great to get the program back into circulation.

Some of you may be using Laver and Garry’s policy positions dictionary, available from the resources page. This is a dictionary of english-language political terms designed to capture issue content in party manifestos. After some investigation it appears there were actually two different versions of this dictionary floating about the academic end of the web. And it seems that the one I translated for the Yoshikoder was not the one used in the final article.

Tush.

I’ve unlinked the old one and added LaverGarryAJPS.ykd to the page. Thanks to John Garry for sorting out which was which. Practically speaking, they’ve much the same content, but the real one is smaller.

LingPipe looks like a pretty useful set of natural language processing components. The license is quirky, but seems broadly consistent with Yoshikoder’s GPL. Something for the weekend, I think.