[TxMt] Re: Find verbs and nouns

On Jun 6, 2013, at 4:58 AM, Ross Ahmed rossahmed@googlemail.com wrote:

Does TextMate have the ability to locate all verbs, nouns and adjectives in a body of text?

On Jun 6, 2013, at 7:10 AM, Ross Ahmed rossahmed@googlemail.com wrote:

Do you know where I might find such a script?

If it were me, I would do this with Python's Natural Language Toolkit (http://nltk.org). Specifically, the examples on this page show how easy it is to extract verbs, nouns and adjectives:

http://nltk.org/book/ch05.html

It would be very straightforward to write a small Python script that would use the NLTK to identify each of these types of words from a string, and then if you want call this from TextMate (e.g., passing the current window content as input).

-- Phil