Thanks for the comment. I had not previously seen ACLWeb’s wiki. It looks good.
I have also found that aaai.org keeps a fairly robust set of introductory information and tutorials. Theirs is complete enough that I think another site may not be warranted.
It may be better to join with one of those sites and help them improve it.

Stu

Also, did you have a chance to look at ACLWiki’s ‘State of the art’ section? http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=State_of_the_art

I feel that your idea is great. I subscribed to your blog to track how it goes. However, I also feel that unless it is going to be in a visible place, it will not be found and may even suffer the same fate as other very interesting, but barely noticed projects.

Having it on a central WIKI (same section or a different one) would make it more visible and therefore easier for it to succeed and stay current.

A tool that I would very much like to see available is a “Picture-Word” dictionary. We are doing some research in this area with Steve Helmreich and Jim Cowie from New Mexico State University. The idea is to generate a “pictorial representation of meaning” from linguistic input. The key challenge is to figure out how to compose pictures together to generate such representations. For a very simple instance, how to compose a picture for an expression like “the red ball” without having to pre-store all possible combinations of objects and colors.

Stu,

I would add to your list the following components:

Named Entity Recognition tool, Gazetteers
Information Extraction tool (extracts related entities from text)
Machine Translation tool
Natural Language Dialog front-end tool

Best wishes with the portal. Please feel free to post any of my software or RDF files there, or to link to the texai download page on SourceForge.

-Steve