Intelligent Virtual Research Environment for Natural Language Processing (IvrE-NLP)

Abstract

In the 21st century, natural language processing (NLP) has obtained much prominence for human–machine interaction (HMI). With this interest in natural language processing (NLP) has grown significantly, numerous NLP tools (e.g., morphology, the tagger, and a parser, etc.) have been developed all over the world. Despite having huge importance and requirements, we have noticed gaps for having a comprehensive single framework or platform, which encompass all NLP-related tools and technologies for promoting the research in NLP and sharing the knowledge and resources among NLP researchers required for understanding and building the solution for HMI. Our objective is to apply Software engineering in natural language processing with the concept of an object-oriented model by using a collection of reusable objects by defining the communication protocol, consisting of a set of rules that must be applied to exchange data between two NLP modules. We proposed state of art ivrE—A virtual environment for creating, modifying, executing, and analyzing various NLP solutions and technology. The proposed idea is broadly based on to define own ivrE-NLP object framework model that permits the developer to create, modify, and execute the application and analyze their outcomes by operations on visual representations of the modules. A variety of NLP-based applications (tools, modules, and plugins) already exist, they can publish into store available with environment so it can be used by research community at large. To develop complete NLP framework or platform, we require much more than just assembling or collecting these tools or modules at one place, no matter how good any tool or module is working individually. It requires not only the standards and a set of protocols, but also requires a compliant composition than a pre-defined algorithms and their implementation. In brief, we require a comprehensive open framework to bundle, manage, and integrate set of NLP tools, modules, components, applications, algorithms, and define their associated rules, comprehensive data structures, and knowledge.