SharpSimpleNLG

SharpSimpleNLG is a C# port of the University of Aberdeen simplenlg project. All thanks and acknowledgement for hard work goes to this team.

NuGet

Install-Package SharpSimpleNLG

Version 1.2.0:

Thanks to PR from Arash-Sabet now supports .NET Standard 1.6 and .NET 4.6.2; along with VS2017 support. Added to NuGet package (I still hope my packaging is OK!)

Version 1.1.1:

Thanks to PR from Andriy Svyrd now supports .NET Standard 1.3. Added to NuGet package (I hope my packaging is OK!)
Renaming .csproj to ensure naming of assemblies is OK
Move all extension methods (on Enums, mainly) into the SimpleNLG.Extensions namespace to stop pollution (thanks for recommendation Andriy)
Fix pathing to Lexicon
NuGet packaging fixes

Version 1.0.2:

Permit passing of path to default-lexicon.xml into the XMLLexicon constructor
thereby permitting a rough-draft (and untested) .NET Core port

Version 1.0.0 First commit/NuGet:

Taken the current release of SimpleNLG (V4.4.8 API) version and generated a C# version.
Unit tests ported, with added tests for C# specifics (Java idioms in Regex, Collections, equals, strings.substring etc)
Current release English, with no HTML generation nor NIHLexicon import

I have to write some good documentation.

Look at the code in the Syntax Tutorials Unit Test. All these pass, so it is a good starter.

Or look at the general Unit Tests and see what simplenlg can do: SharpSimpleNLG Unit Tests

Visual Studio 2017 with C# 6.0+ idioms used (as this is what I used)
I've only used C# null conditionals and string interpolation in a couple of places so C# 6.0 isn't a forced requirement
Assembly created has a minimum of .NET Standard 1.3 / .NET 4.5.2, but there is only use of generic HashSet<T>, Stack<T>, List<T> and Dictionary<K,V> with no async/await - so it should port to earlier .NET if you are into that sort of thing.

270 Unit tests using NUnit included.
Passing Unit tests from the original project have been ported
Added Unit tests for this particular port
7 tests do not pass; I think this is related to the configuration of the Unit tests rather than a code issue.

I am sure someone somewhere at sometime (most likely me) will find my Learnings on Java to C# interesting and useful.

contribute back to parent!
implement NIHLexicon and MultipleLexicon
implement HTMLFormatter
re-work Unit test hierarchy
continue to track simplenlg changes and additions
fluent-style sentence and phrase creation
More C#/functional style
Enums.ToString() change to Enum "side" hierarchy (because of C#/Java differences)
smarter types (eg: widely used Dictionary<string, object> to subclassed to make life easier)
Documentation specific to this port

Questions? You can find me on Twitter @RealNickHodge or email Nick Hodge