Building an NLP Robot to Live on my Forum

This is starting out really just as a discussion of the technologies involved in order to create a natural language processing agent that would be able to join in conversations (probably in a rather basic way) on my Forum. As I see it the stages required are as follows:

• Read input
• Use dictionary database to find word types (probably implementing fuzzy matching to deal with typos). Gcide looks like a good one
• Build parse tree - verb phrases, noun phrases etc
  
• Calculate input semantic category (e.g. question, statement)
• Semantic processing
• Judge output semantic category
• Use semantic rules to create output 'theme'
• Use syntactic parse tree templates to turn output into natural language
• Write output

Now of course some of these stages are much more complicated than others


TBC...