oopcorenlp – Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

I would like to express my thanks to the many people who have helped me along the way. I stand on the shoulders of giants: the virtues belong to them, the faults are all mine.

To my parents, who were there at the beginning and made everything possible.
To Holly Stephenson and Joe Wojciechowski, who made me diagram sentences in English and Latin until I finally started to get the idea.
To Marty Kalin, who devoted the last week of his C++ course to a new web animation language called Java.
To Mike Petit, who trusted me to figure out how to write, deploy, and run an NLP engine in AWS.
To all the great open source developers, especially Christopher Manning and the Stanford CoreNLP group.
To Indi Chandrasekhar, the founder of Out Of Print magazine and my favorite co-editor.
And most of all to Laura, Arvind, and Ravi; who put up with me disappearing into the basement for days at a time and accepted the explanation that "it's like the mashed potatoes in Close Encounters of the Third Kind".