Proper Nouns: A Case Study in Agile LLM-assisted Development
I’ve released version 1.0.1 of the proper nouns library.
This is a new free-as-in-speech Java library that I wrote — Well I sort of wrote it. Truthfully GitHub copilot and whatever LLM model is sitting behind it wrote quite a bit of it. But anyway proper nouns is a library I wrote to scratch an itch. You feed it a word, and the library tells you if the word is very likely to be a name and very unlikely to not be a name so, for instance, it will tell you that Robert is a name and April is a name, but it will not tell you that Dawn is a name because dawn is also commonly used as a simple noun in English. It will tell you that Smith is a name because although smith is a perfectly valid common noun, it’s far more commonly seen as a name in the 21st century.
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