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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Golf Me An OOP!
Golf Me An OOP!
Two important components of object-oriented programming are inheritance and composition. Together, they allow for creating simple yet powerful class hierarchies to solve problems. ...
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Tell me how many math problems I have to do!
My teacher always gives me the most complicated set of math problems for homework. Like: pg. 546: 17-19, 22, 26, pg. 548: 35-67 odd, 79, 80-86 even. And I want to ...
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My Word can beat up your Word
PROBLEM
Given two words, find the winner in a digital root battle.
Define the digital root of a word this way:
Each letter of the alphabet is assigned a number: A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, ..., Z = 26
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Program to Spoonerise words [duplicate]
A spoonerisation is swapping the first letter/pronounceable syllable of two or more words.
Example: A lack of pies = A pack of lies. Bad salad = Sad ballad (ish) :)
Challenge: Write a program to ...
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Is this even a word?
Your should write a program or function that takes a 4-character string as input and outputs a value indicating if the string is an English word or not. You are allowed to make mistakes in 15% of the ...
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Sign that word!
What is a Word Signature?
The signature of a word are all of it's letters put in order - the signatures of this, hist and ...
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You're a Romanizer, Baby
Romanization of Japanese is converting Japanese text into Latin characters. In this challenge, you will be given a string of Japanese characters as input and expected to convert them to the correct ...
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Distance to four
This challenge is based on this video. I recommend that you watch it before trying this challenge.
First we define a function. This function (OEIS) takes a integer n as input and outputs the number ...
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Convert English to a number without built-ins or libraries
This challenge is similar to this other, however I made a restriction (see bold text below) that I think would made it much diffent and (I hope) fun either.
The Challenge
Write a program or a ...
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Convert phrases to reverse style [duplicate]
The Challenge
Convert a phrase of two words to reverse style: candy bar -> bar le candy.
Specifications
There will be one word (only ...
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Translate your English source code into a foreign language [closed]
I have noticed that there are a disproportionate number of computer languages based on English. I propose to fix this by translating existing computer languages into foreign languages!
Pick a ...
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Guess the word (aka Lingo)
The goal of this challenge is to write a program able to guess a word in the smallest possible number of attempts.
It is based on the concept of the Lingo TV show (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(...
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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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Count to 20 with Words!
Using the following length-separated lists of words:
https://github.com/Magic Octopus Urn/wordListsByLength
Print 1 word from each list of length n from 1 all ...
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Automate your first grade counting exercise
CodeGolf Challenge
PWSSHHHH! You wake up in a cryogenics lab in the year 3000. Upon being escorted to the assignment office to receive your career chip, presumably that of a delivery boy, a probe ...
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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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How to count the syllables in a word
Input: You will be passed a string containing a single english word. All letters will be lowercase, and there will be no non-alphabetic characters in the string.
Output: You will return an integer ...
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Sign that word 2!
Sign that word 2!
Not that long ago, I posted a challenge called Sign that word!. In the challenge, you must find the signature of word, which is the letters put in order (e.g. The signature of ...
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Generate a pronounceable word
The challenge is simple:
generate a word.
Specifications:
Word must be pronounceable.
This is defined as "alternating between a consonant and a vowel."
A consonant is one of the following letters: ...
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Find words containing every vowel
Your program must find all the words in this wordlist that contain all the vowels (a e i o u y). There are easy ways to do this, but I am looking for the shortest ...
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¿xu ti te gismytermorna? (Is it a valid gismu?)
(Literally: "Does this follow/realize the gismu-form?")
Premise
The language Lojban is a constructed language, meaning in part that all of its words have been created rather than allowed to develop ...
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Books full of nonsense: Identify limericks
As we all know, limericks are short, five-line, occasionally-lewd poems with an AABBA rhyming scheme and an anapestic meter (whatever that is):
Writing a Limerick's absurd
Line one and line five ...
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Perfect Hangman in reverse
This is similar to other hang-man style problems already posted, except, in this case, the computer is the one guessing. Computers are logical, smart, and consider self-preservation to be important, ...
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How long is a Welsh word?
Write a program or function which receives as input a string representing a Welsh word (UTF-8 unless otherwise specified by you).
The following are all single letters in Welsh:
a, b, c, ch, d, dd, ...
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Distinguish between Masculine and Feminine Nouns in French within 100 characters
You are to write a very small program within 100 characters. Your program must distinguish between masculine and feminine french nouns. The output should be un if ...
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Find the Translation Table
Given two strings, find the translation table (substitution cipher) between the two, if the translation is not possible, output false. The answer must be minimized and created from left-to-right. The ...
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Golff y Côd - Treiglad
Read this yng Nghymraeg
Challenge
Given a word in Welsh, output all of the possible mutated forms of the word.
Mutations
A mutation is a change of the first letter of a word when following certain ...
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Text Processing #1: Hyphenation
Background
This is the first part of a 3-hole golf course on text processing.
The over-arching idea is that if you take an input text and pipe it through the solutions to all three challenges (with a ...
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Decompose words into other words (e.g., “afterglow” = “aft” + “erg” + “low”)
Here's one for all you wordsmiths out there! Write a program or function which takes a list of words and produces a list of all possible concatenative decompositions for each word. For example:
(Note:...
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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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Scan dactylic hexameter in a unique puzzle
As a terrible Latin student for several years I have learned to hate many things about Latin. However there is one thing I love.
Latin scansion.
Scansion is the act of determining the meter of a ...
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Reverse Greek Conversion Golf
Introduction
You must create a function to convert Greek numerals into Arabic numerals. The input will be a Greek numeral less than 1000 and more than ...
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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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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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Telling time in French
Bonjour, PPCG ! Quelle heure est-il ? This means what time is it in French, for that is exactly what this challenge is about.
Telling time in French (at least formally) is a bit different from ...
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Conjugate in the Spanish imperfect / Conjugue en el imperfecto de indicativo
Given an input of a Spanish verb in its infinitive form, output the verb
conjugated in all 6 forms of the indicative imperfect.
To conjugate an infinitive in the imperfect, remove the infinitive ...
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Build a readability index
The Flesch-Kincaid readability algorithm depends on the measures of word count and syllable count, neither of which is entirely objective, or easily automatable using a computer. For example, does "...
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Greek Conversion Golf
Introduction
You must create a function to convert Arabic numerals into Greek numerals. The input will be an integer less than 1000 and more than ...
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Grow words from fertile vocabularies
An incremental word chain is a sequence of words of a vocabulary such that each word is the result of either prepending or appending a single character to the previous word, ignoring capitalization. ...
