RiTa
Platform/Software
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Year initiated:
2009
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License:
GPL
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Description:
RiTa† is designed to be an easy-to-use toolkit for experiments in natural language and generative literature. RiTa is implemented in Java and JavaScript with a single API and optionally integrates with Processing. It is free/libre and open-source via a GPL license.
Some of the features of RiTa include:
- Text-generation via Context-Free Grammars and Markov-chains
- Taggers for Syllables, Phonemes, Stress, Part-of-Speech, etc.
- Modules for tokenization, verb conjugation, pluralization, and stemming
- A user-customizable lexicon with a letter-to-sound phoneme generation
- Integration with Processing, ProcessingJS, and NodeJS
- Runs in or outside the browser, with or without Processing
(also in Android) - Optionally integrates with (locally-installed) WordNet dictionary
(rednoise.org/rita/)
Works Developed in this Platform:
Critical Writing Developed in this Platform:
| Work title | Author | Language | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scripting Observable with RiScript | Daniel C. Howe | English | 2021 |
| Writing the Web with RiTa and Javascript | Daniel C. Howe | English | 2012 |
Version history (text):
Based on the RiTa library for Java, RiTaJS was developed to provide a seamless transition for those wishing to work with programmatic natural language natively in the web browser. For server-side applications, RiTaJS also runs as a Node.js module. The RiTa tools are currently implemented for English with a Spanish version under development.
(rednoise.org/rita)
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