Does anyone know of a bit of open source software
that highlights all the verbs or nouns, adjectives, adverbs and so on in a piece of text?

Ta.


This place is getting like Swap Shop!
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 18:09, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

What about this>
sourceforge.net/projects/pytalk/

I just went to sourceforge and typed in "parts of speech". I recommend trying a few different search terms, like Grammar and Parser, and see what you find.

There's also the Natural Language Toolkit, also written in Python.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 18:31, Reply)

wordnet
Is good apparently, but you might have to write a specific script for the task you mentioned.
( monkeybananaraffle, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 22:20, Reply)

Thanks both of you!
I shall have a proper look tomorrow.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 22:27, Reply)