Edison: convert passive sentence to active sentence

[danyaljj]

Write sth that converts passive sentences to active ones; this might be helpful: https://github.com/rgrishman/jet/blob/52ca610354b9e76d954e62725e0fb56762e674d1/src/main/java/edu/nyu/jet/parser/DepTransformer.java#L233-L260

[aurghob]

Hi, Was this or will this be worked on?

[danyaljj]

Nope. Up for grabs.

[aurghob]

Thanks for the quick response! I'm new to the repository so I'm not sure if I have enough background and time to work on this. Could you comment on what else needs to be known here and what you mean by "sth"? Any other resources that need to looked at? Besides, what would be your approximate estimate on time to be taken on this assuming java understanding and a little bit of NLP experience?

[aurghob]

Also - would this also work on questions besides normal sentences in the end?

[Slash0BZ]

Hi @aurghob, this is not something we are planning to work on in the near future, but you are welcomed to contribute, and we would appreciate it.

To answer your question, I am not entirely sure what's the purpose of the original comment. Given the code in the link above, I am assuming it's a set of hard-coded rules, which shouldn't be too complicated.

I don't know what you mean by sentences in the end. If you can, please give us some details on what your expectations are from this function, some examples would be useful.

[aurghob]

Its alright if you guys are not looking to take this up right now - I'm looking to use a active to passive and/or passive to active voice converter for questions. My expectation, for example, is that if a question is present in active voice as "Did John read Cinderella?", I want to change it to something similar to "Was Cinderella read by John?".

Thanks for the guess - I'd assume 1-2 weeks would be fair. I'll try to look into it in that case. Would you have any idea how the relations are generated and what a span might represent here?