He'd watched her thoughtfully, his two-toned expression unreadable. Why not? No one was paying her any mind.Īnd then just like in the flicks, a big, well-kempt man-leonin, just like her, but three times her size and donning a gorgeous, expensive jewel-toned coat that little ol' Kitt had been jealous of the moment the fabric caught her eye-this bigwig had halted right in front of her. There she'd been, not a soul stopping to listen or grace her voice and presence with a coin, so she'd launched into the pigeons' favorite, "Birdnest Berceuse." They'd all rustled excitedly, wings fluffing out as she rang her changes through the bridge, playing with a key change simply for the joy of launching her voice in flight. All the old tunes sounded better with the life of New Capenna as their rhythm section.
She would start humming, then singing, riffing and harmonizing with the wash of sound. Even when no one threw her a coin, the pigeons gave her their rapt attention. Pigeons always settled in a row in the rafters, bright eyes turned to her. Before she started, she always gave herself a few minutes of listening to pick up the mood of the moment, the tempo of feet, the syncopated patter of talk, the languorous rumble as trains slowed to a halt and then clickity-clacked their way onward, ba da dum ba da dum ba da dumbadi dumbadi dum. Kitt had picked the most acoustic corner of Lower Bassomer Station that morning, her back to the iron balusters. People bustled up and down those worn marble stairwells as though the trains inhaled them in and exhaled them out in waves.
Alley cats strike back update#
I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).Sure, the subway wasn't the most pleasant-smelling part of New Capenna, not by a long shot, but the gig made her a living.
Alley cats strike back code#
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), and express.js.Ĭurrently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.įinally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals.
For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words.
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