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Week 9

I've combined LinkGrammar and BANNER. It was a bit of a headache at first, but it's working now. I had thought that since LinkGrammar was written in C, I would have to figure out some sneaky ways to make it work with BANNER's Java code, but thankfully, the authors of LinkGrammar included Java bindings, and it ended up being as easy as including a .jar in the libraries for the project.

It's rather ugly looking, but the way LinkGrammar sends back the linkages is very simplistic, and doing any searching and iterating through the structure is quite a pain. Right now it looks for words that are subjects, objects, verbs, and adjectives relating to the word at hand. It shouldn't be too hard to expand the code to look for more kinds of linkages in the future if we want to, but I think this is a good starting point.