Week 2 (5/28/2018)

Monday 5/28

Happy Memorial Day! 

Tuesday 5/29

Today, we focused on setting up the environment onto our terminal. We first installed Python and PyCharm. We then created a ChatBot folder, which will be the main location of the project. After, we installed the virtual environment, PIP,  and imported libraries onto our command prompts. I started the IBM Blockchain Foundation Developer Course (a 6hr course), which gives us in-depth details on how blockchain works and can be created. (Link: https://developer.ibm.com/courses/all/ibm-blockchain-foundation-developer/).

Wednesday 5/30

NLTK (Natural Language ToolKit) is a program used in Python to work with the data of human language. Today, we focused on what NLTK is and started to familiarize ourselves with the coding. The following link is a cheat sheet of NLTK code that we are caught up with so far: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cKiQ19nUEzb8PMnV_xyTZTRXC0VFbx58kHhiVxS1BmA/edit?usp=sharing. You can learn more about NLTK at : nltk.org/book.

Thursday 5/31

Continued working with NLTK, mainly moving forward and focusing on different corpora. Corpora are simply large libraries of text, usually of a specific genre. At 12:30, we had a meeting with Professor Eliscu in the TEC building discussing the ECC Conference @ Marist and IBM blockchain and mainframe. We look forward to working on GraceAI and work with her language database with the use of a raspberry pi.