General Links
- AddAll - a search engine to find the lowest price on books.
NLP Links
- Project Gutenberg - a huge collection of novels for free download. Sometimes they're nice for a quick corpus, but they aren't representative of modern English so they might not work in a practical domain.
- YAWL - I got the word.list file from the yawl-0.3 package for use as a dictionary in a class assignment years ago and kept on using it. It seems to contain both inflectional and derivational forms of words (about 250,000 words I think)
- Aligned Hansard Corpus - a relatively large corpus of the congressional proceedings of Quebec, with segments of text in both English and French.
- Links to download NLP tools (Stanford) - they have a huge list of NLP tools available on the web, like POS taggers, chunkers, etc.
Doing research on the Mac
At some point, I got really sold on Macs. But software tends to either be written for OS X or for everything else. So here's a list of some software online that I use to do research on my Mac.
- TextWrangler - a free programmer's text editor. It's pretty good, though I still miss EditPlus from Windows.
- TeXShop - a LaTeX editor for Mac. It has a lot of nice things, like apple-click in the paper to go to the spot in the PDF or vice versa. Plus there's inline spell checking and the commands are all automated (you can macro the latex, bibtex, latex x 2 and all)
- BibDesk - I just started using it, but it's an excellent bibtex file manager. It gives some nice searching ability and also have a decent UI for summaries and such, plus it allows you to link the bibtex entries to PDFs on your computer, so you can manage your library much better. The summaries and such are saved in the bibtex file, so it'll still interoperate with other platforms. My only beef is that the file links aren't in the bibtex itself and that it won't leave your comments intact either. But it can import the fancy citations from IEEE, ACM, and Google Scholar, so that's cool.
- I've been using Google Documents for a while now and I'm generally happy with it. It can import csv and doesn't have absurd load times. And the files are stored in the cloud if you work at home periodically. I recently installed Office 2011 and I've gotta say I'm impressed at how much better Excel chart are than they used to be. I still prefer Keynote for presentations though. For text documents, probably anything will work fine.