= BluePrint for Message Parser =
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== Current Status ==
See DeveloperGuidelines/Messaging/Parser

== Plans ==
See [wiki:BluePrint/Messaging/ExtendingParsing BluePrint/Messaging/ExtendingParsing] 

== Notes ==
[http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com Pyparsing] is included in the modules folder.

This can decode messages, especially from compressed formats such as Tweets or SMS but also free-from formats such as email.

We could add further text processing such as our implementation of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance Levenshtein], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaro%E2%80%93Winkler_distance Jaro-Winkler Distance], [http://code.google.com/p/seentags/wiki/Algorithm SeenTags] or [http://organic.elis.ugent.be/oger Oger].

Alternative:
 * [http://github.com/ushahidi/SiLCC RESTful semantic tag extraction application for SMS, Twitter and Text]