# Natual Language processing for Addresses

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/natual-language-processing-for-addresses/92511>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 20, 2007, 4:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/natual-language-processing-for-addresses/92511 "2007-04-20T04:37:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![PeteSalty](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/bc79bd/32.png) [@PeteSalty](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/PeteSalty)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 4:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/natual-language-processing-for-addresses/92511/1 "2007-04-20T04:37:28Z")

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Does anyone know of a gem or plugin that does for street addresses  
what Chronic does for dates?  
And in a similar tone, does anyone know of somthing similar for names  
of places and people (I’m guessing the answer is no but it doesn’t  
hurt to ask).

Dale

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**Author:** ![PeteSalty](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/bc79bd/32.png) [@PeteSalty](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/PeteSalty)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/natual-language-processing-for-addresses/92511/2 "2007-04-20T04:52:29Z")

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On Apr 19, 2007, at 10:36 PM, PeteSalty wrote:

> Does anyone know of a gem or plugin that does for street addresses  
> what Chronic does for dates?  
> And in a similar tone, does anyone know of somthing similar for names  
> of places and people (I’m guessing the answer is no but it doesn’t  
> hurt to ask).

graticule/acts\_as\_geocodable will normalize addresses, so you may be  
able to get it to do what you want.

[http://rubyforge.org/projects/graticule/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/graticule/)  
[http://source.collectiveidea.com/public/rails/plugins/](http://source.collectiveidea.com/public/rails/plugins/)  
acts\_as\_geocodable/README

You may also be interested in the index of rails geo plugins I’ve  
been building at:

[http://foss4r.dyndns.org/trac/wiki/ComparingRailsGeoPlugins](http://foss4r.dyndns.org/trac/wiki/ComparingRailsGeoPlugins)

James.

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