LvAuthor

LvAuthor is a platform used for text analysis. It creates the xml files used by gnosly.com and English Listening Game.

The main tasks and algorithms are the following:

• text cleaning: UTF-8 conversion, special chars removing
• paragraph splitting
• period splitting
• phrase analysis: phrase slitting, phrase type determination (incisive, direct, indirect, etc)
• word splitting
• Part of speech (POS) assignment of word. Automatic disambiguation with human supervision
• audio matching: words of text are discovered in audiobook file determining the time when the each word begin and end
• word translation: words are translated automatically
• english text phrase and Italian text phrase correlation: each english phrase is correlated with the related Italian phrase, comparing the original text of the story with the human translated one 
• revision applying: fix made by the professor on word translation or phrase correlation is applied
• final xml file building

The technologies used for this app are the following:

• Netbeans Platform
• NLP algorithms
• Ant with custom ant task, XSLT
• Java
• Postgresql, JPA (Hibernate) 
• GIT, Maven