Questions tagged [natural-language]
Problems involving processing of natural languages in a human way. Tasks include interpreting free text, correcting spelling or grammar, understanding pronunciation, etc.
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It's Just Simple Math! [duplicate]
Task
Your boss is on another crusade for 'efficiency.' He wants to encourage the use of numbers with fewer syllables, so that they're easier to discuss in meetings. If you want to take some time off ...
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Shortest English prompt to produce LLM falsehood [closed]
Since programming is predicted to become natural linguisized by the unstoppable advances in LLM technology, perhaps we can code golf LLMs themselves.
Produce the shortest question that is not an ...
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Spell date in Japanese
Objective
Given a date, spell it out in Romanized Japanese.
I/O Format
The input format is flexible. The output format is <month spelling> <day spelling>...
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When in {country}, do as the {countrians} do
(or: Output the plural demonym.)
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. This is a well-known English phrase meaning that it’s best to follow what others are doing around you — to go with the flow. Today, ...
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Zahlen auf Deutsch! (Numbers in German)
Your task is to write a program that receives a base 10 number from 0 to 99 and outputs the German name of that number with non-ASCII characters replaced with ASCII equivalents.
German number names
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Help Me Type on My New Keyboard
Overview
As most of y'all who visit chat know, I am Russian by ethnicity[citation not needed]. Recently, I switched from a keyboard that maps the letters 1-to-1 (mnemonic) to Windows' default mnemonic ...
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Translate to plorcly borglar
plorcly borglar is a "mod" created by jan Misali for the constructed language toki pona that makes words sound funny.
It involves substituting the 14 toki pona letters for funnier versions ...
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Selective Caesar Cipher
Input
A string of text.
Output
The string of text, however, every consonant is the next consonant in the alphabet, and every vowel is the next vowel in the alphabet (z becomes b, u becomes a). The ...
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Convert from Greeklish to modern Greek
Greeklish, a portmanteau of the words Greek and English, is a way of writing modern Greek using only ASCII characters. This informal way of writing was extensively used in older applications / web ...
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Tell me how many there are, in Polish
Today, you're going to be writing Polish. No, not Polish notation—Polish, the actual language spoken in Poland.
Given a number and a noun, output a Polish sentence telling me that there are that many ...
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Detect Mongolian vowel harmony
The Mongolian language has "vowel harmony". In short the vowel harmony means that certain vowels are not allowed to be placed next to each other in a word. This means that suffixes of ...
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Determine Uilta Pitch Accent
Uilta is a minority tungusic language spoken in the far east of Russia.
A neat thing about Uilta is that it has pitch accent which can be predicted by a computer program. In this challenge we are ...
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Organize a Kiowa library
We are probably all used to the English alphabetical order:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
When we compare words in English for the sake of ...
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Find my Māori pronouns
The Māori language has quite simple pronouns. It uses a single word for he/she/they/etc (ia), and the words for "you" and "me" are ...
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Biggest katlani noun dictionary in 400 bytes
Katlani is a constructed language being designed in chat. In this challenge, your goal is to print the largest dictionary of katlani nouns possible in 400 bytes or less.
Task
In 400 bytes or less, ...
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Is this a word?
Toki pona is a minimalist constructed language, and thus it has minimalist phonotactics (rules describing what sounds make valid words).
Toki Pona has 8 consonant sounds ...
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Is it a valid line in "Girls & Boys"?
Intro
Blur's song Girls & Boys featured the lines
girls who are boys who like boys to be girls
who do boys like they're girls, who do girls like they're boys
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English An or A?
Given a string consisting of only upper and lower case letters, output an if it begins with a vowel, and a if not. For the ...
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Display a number in Toki Pona
Toki Pona is a constructed language with 137ish words, designed to constrain the speaker to expressing ideas in a simple and straightforward manner, reducing ideas to more essential forms.
Often, ...
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I before E, except after C
You may be aware of the famous old rhyme, "I before E, except after C". It is a rule taught to aid in the spelling of certain English words.
Quoting Wikipedia:
If one is not sure whether a ...
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Translate English to English
You have been hired by the American embassy in the UK to act as a translator. Being a programmer, you decide to write a program to do a bit of the work for you.
You've found out that often just doing ...
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Day of Week - Natural language processing and date parsing
You'll get a human-readable question matching one of the following syntaxes, and are expected to print/return the corresponding result. Finding similarities between the human-readable inputs and ...
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A Portuguese sequence of integers
Context
Consider the following sequence of integers:
$$2, 10, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, ...$$
Can you guess the next term? Well, it is \$200\$. What about the next? It is \$201\$... In case it hasn't become ...
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Distinguish English and Spanish with regular expressions
The task is to to compete for the shortest regex (in bytes) in your preferred programming language which can distinguish between English and Spanish with minimum 60%...
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Who's that pokemon (based on its etymology)?
As we all know, most Pokemon are created by combining some English (or Japanese) words; these words are the Pokemon's "etymology." For example, "charmander" is "char" and "salamander" put together.
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Return a word with a prescribed sum of letters
Identify each letter of the English alphabet with the number denoting its position in the alphabet, that is,
a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, ..., z = 26
(no distinction ...
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Let's learn a bit French: 99 Bottles [duplicate]
The 99 bottles in French
The lyrics of the song goes like this:
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Counting syllables [duplicate]
Challenge
Write code that, given an English word, outputs the number of syllables it has. Scoring will be determined by a combination of code length and accuracy.
Rules
The accuracy of the ...
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Interpret numbers very literally
To interpret a positive integer very literally, write it in English words (without "and"), replace hyphens with spaces, replace each resulting word with its number value, and concatenate the ...
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Translate a simple sentence from Toki Pona
Toki Pona is a linguist's code golf: A minimalist language with a vocabulary of around 120 words. Because of this, it has very few grammatical irregularities found in other languages, making it ideal ...
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Print your char count in words, in many languages
This challenge is inspired by my earlier challenge "Create a program that prints the amount of characters it has, in words".
This challenge's rules are simple: make a program that prints its ...
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Print the full conjugation of a French verb
Given a string ending in either "er", "ir", or "re" (the "infinitive"), output the full conjugation of the string as a French verb in the seven simple tenses. For each tense (in the order given below),...
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How long's left?
How long's left?
Recently, I was making pizza using a 5-minute timer on my phone. When someone walked in and asked me how long was left, I was confused for a moment at first as to how to answer the ...
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Find 77 7-letter Magic Words [closed]
A magic word is a word whose Braille spelling contains precisely 26 dots (because the Morse code alphabet can be circularly encoded within). For example:
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Dad jokes are fun
We all know the classic dad joke that goes something like this:
Somebody says a sentence to describe their self (e.g. I'm tired or ...
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An Séimhiú agus an tUrú
An Séimhiú agus an tUrú
In Irish Gaelic (Gaeilge) there are a number of ways that the start of a word can be changed. The most common of these are lenition (an séimhiú) and eclipsis (an t-urú)
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How many syllables in that number?
I'd love to take a number and know how many syllables are in it, when spoken in English.
Let's limit this to positive integers which are less than one thousand.
I'm British, so we're going to follow ...
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PronunciationSort™
We all know of different fancy sorting algorithms, but none of these give us numbers in a way that's easy to pronounce. To remedy this, I propose using PronunciationSort™, the most natural way to sort ...
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I won't not use no double negatives [closed]
The goal is to simplify sentences containing multiple negatives.
Like with multiplying negative numbers, two negative words annihilate each other until at most one is left (doesn't matter which one). ...
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The Onion, or Not The Onion?
The Onion (warning: many articles are NSFW) is a satirical news organization that parodies traditional news media. In 2014, The Onion launched ClickHole (warning: also frequently NSFW), a satirical ...
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Pleasanortmanteaus
A portmanteau word is a combination of two words that takes part of each word and makes them into a single new word. For example, lion + tiger => liger.
Let's write a program to generate portmanteaus ...
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Self-enumerating pangrams
Pangrams
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
This is an example of a pangram - a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet at least once.
A self-enumerating pangram is a ...
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M_ss_ng Lette_s
Given this list of all the words in english and a string with s_me missi_g lett__s, find one way to fill in the letters. Do note that some words on the list contain special characters (...
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Sort spelled-out serial numbers
Given a list of two or more spelled-out serial numbers of equal length greater than two, e.g.
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Romanize Korean
Yes, It's basically You're a Romanizer, Baby, but harder. like, way harder.
Learning Korean is HARD. at least for a person outside Asia. But they at least have the chance to learn, right?
What ...
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Case-fold German
Given a German string and an indication of a case (lower/upper/title), fold the string to that case.
Specifications
Input will consist only of a–...
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Parse my Esperanto!
The famous constructed language Esperanto uses the Latin alphabet (mostly, see the linked wikipedia page for details). However, there are some characters with accents: ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ, and ŭ. (C-...
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Ain't no thang! ...or is it?
Introduction
Street talk can be really difficult to understand, in particular to programmers, who aren't known to be very streetwise.
It is your job to create an interpreter to help us all survive ...
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Collatz's First Conjecture [duplicate]
Background
The Collatz Conjecture is quite well-known. Take any natural number. Triple and increment if odd; cut in half if even. Repeat, and it will reach 1 eventually. This famous conjecture, ...
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FORTY TWO? SIX? NINE? Understand these and much more! [duplicate]
Given the written, spelled-out representation of an integer from 1 to 10^15-1 inclusive, convert it to an actual integer in ...
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