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Hi there, we are PragmaLingu - an open-source project and community of people interested in search and Natural Language Processing (NLP). We build tools, guides and resources for everyone who wants to explore, measure and validate novel solutions for problems in search and NLP applications.

Our focus lies with solutions that try to model knowledge and contexts, to understand the meaning of words, therefore touching the area of Pragmatics in Linguistics. We are focusing on actual applications such as search and try to convey all knowledge and techniques from a problem-solving viewpoint because we believe that this pragmatic perspective is intuitive and makes learning fun.

Mission#

The mission of PragmaLingu is:

  • To create simple, intuitive and open resources; to understand, validate and reproduce novel solutions to search and NLP use-cases.
  • To advance these solutions, by exploring the usefulness of pragmatic concepts for these use-cases.
  • To build a beginner-friendly and open community for everyone interested in these topics.

The underlying motivation for the project is not monetization, but to foster learning, build expertise and advance research in the field.

Roadmap#

You can check out our public roadmap on GitHub.

Contribute#

What can you do to help?

  • Ask questions on our public Discord server if you don’t understand something or if some of our articles and explanations are not clear.
  • Create pull requests for improvements or fixes on GitHub.
  • Send us your feedback or suggest interesting datasets or projects.
  • Discuss and improve the experiments and comparisons with us.

Team#

Samy Ateia

Samy is a software engineer focusing on search and NLP web applications. He worked in big and small enterprise projects and co founded a startup for news aggregation. He started pragmalingu in 2020 to explore modern NLP approaches for search applications and create a guide for interested developers.
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Miriam Rupprecht

Miriam is a Computer Linguistic student at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich. Before starting her studies in Munich she got her Bachelor’s degree in Theater, Film and Media Science in Vienna. Her role in PragmaLingu is to research and write topics around NLP.
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Omar Essam

Omar is an AI Research Engineer at Mendel.ai where they try to structure unstructured health data, he's interested in NLP and extracting knowledge from unstructured data and in PragmaLingu, he's trying to integrate that with search to modernize search applications.
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Rikki

Rikki is our hard-working mascot.

Past Contributers#

Pavel Prokopev

Pavel is an independent NLP Researcher from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He works on solving business problems using scientific approach. In PragmaLingu his main role is consulting on using innovative solutions in solving natural language processing tasks.
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Dario Alves

Dário is a MSc Computer and Telematics engineering student at University of Aveiro, Portugal. A Linux and Open Source enthusiast, whose main areas of interest are AI, data mining, computer languages, compilers and low level software development. Through Pragmalingu, he hopes to collaborate in building resources to assess state of the art NLP approaches directed towards information retrieval.
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