# ANN: English 0.2.0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 7, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-english-0-2-0/128351 "2008-02-07T00:11:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-english-0-2-0/128351/1 "2008-02-07T00:11:30Z")
= English [http://english.rubyforge.org](http://english.rubyforge.org) English is a spin-off of Facets, collecting together all the English language libraries together under a single unified project. The English project intends to provided a general purpose set of English- oriented text manipulation and natural language processing Ruby libraries in one convenient package. The library thus far consists of censor.rb, double\_metaphone.rb, dresner.rb, inflect.rb, jumble.rb, levenshtein.rb, metaphone.rb, numerals.rb, patterns.rb, porter\_stemming.rb, roman.rb, similarity.rb, soundex.rb and textfilter.rb. == Release Notes This version incorporates some new libraries gathered from various sources and cleans up the library as a whole. It should be a pretty usable little library now. == Usage Please see the API documentation. == Install % gem install english or download the .zip file and install manually: % unzip english-x.y.z.zip % cd english-x.y.z % sudo task/setup For Windows users the last line needs to be ‘ruby task/setup’. == Authors - Trans - Paul B. - Tim F. - Derek Lewis - George M. - Michael N. == Changes === 0.2.0 // 2008-02-06 - Removed Language module. All libraries (except extensions) are now in toplevel English module. - Incorporated a couple libraries from the Text project and other sources. == Copying English, Copyright (c) 2007 Tiger Ops Some libraries within English are copyrighted to respective authors, or are derivatives of such acknowledged work. English is distributed under the terms of the Ruby License. Which is a dual GPL license. ---
**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-english-0-2-0/128351/2 "2008-04-13T21:02:40Z")
On Feb 6, 2008, at 3:10 PM, Trans wrote: > English is a spin-off of Facets, collecting together all the English > language libraries together under a single unified project. The > English project intends to provided a general purpose set of English- > oriented text manipulation and natural language processing Ruby > libraries in one convenient package. Just out of curiosity, did you know about the Linguistics library before you released this? “English” has some stuff the ‘en’ module of Linguistics doesn’t have (and vice-versa), but I’d have happily added new functions to it if you had suggested it. If you did know about it beforehand, was there something about it you found objectionable? Just professional curiosity. I’d like to make Linguistics usable for people other than myself, and if you felt compelled to write something else to avoid having to use it, I’d take that as a sign that it needs changing. Thanks, ---
**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 3:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-english-0-2-0/128351/3 "2008-04-14T03:06:56Z")
On Apr 13, 3:00 pm, Michael G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Linguistics doesn’t have (and vice-versa), but I’d have happily added > new functions to it if you had suggested it. > > If you did know about it beforehand, was there something about it you > found objectionable? Just professional curiosity. I’d like to make > Linguistics usable for people other than myself, and if you felt > compelled to write something else to avoid having to use it, I’d take > that as a sign that it needs changing. I had done a little searching and knew about Lingustics. My main usage was #plural and #singular, and I already had code that used these. So I didn’t want to have to go back and add “.en” in all those cases. Of course, I now know one can use the :proxy option to get around this, but at the the time I did not know that. But beyond that, I suppose it just a matter of design “levels”, if you will. Lingustics is a much bigger idea, not just for English but also ultimately having in mind support for other languages. I think that’s great, but my feeling was I just wanted something simpler, focused on English and some commonly useful language processing. But I wouldn’t mind talking to you more off list and see what we might be able to do mutaully. T.