RiTa New version 2.4 !

Designed to support the creation of new works of computational writing, the free and open-source RiTa^† library provides tools for artists and writers working with natural language in programmable media. The library is designed to be simple while still enabling a range of powerful features, from the included RiScript scripting language, to grammar and Markov-based text generation, to inflection, conjugation, stemming, tokenization and feature-analysis (for pos, phonemes, syllables, stresses, etc). RiTa is implemented in both Java and JavaScript and runs in a number of popular programming environments including p5.js, Processing, Node and Android.

^† from old Norse, meaning to mark, scratch, or scribble

RiTa Version 2

Version 2 of RiTa is a complete rewrite of the library that is simpler, faster, more consistent, and more easily maintained. But is NOT backwards-compatible with programs written with version 1.x. Nearly all of the functionality of v1 is still available (plus lots of cool new features), but much of the organization and many of the function names have changed. Migrating an older work to v2 is generally quite straightforward (and I'm happy to help if you run into problems)...

Key Features

• Integration of the new RiScript scripting language, designed specifically for writers
• Letter-to-sound engine for feature analysis of arbitrary words (with or without a lexicon)
• Smart lexicon search for words matching part-of-speech, syllable, stress and rhyme patterns
• Fast, heuristic algorithms for inflection, conjugation, stemming, tokenization, and more
• Powerful new options for generation via grammars and Markov chains

Important Changes

• Nearly all features of the library are now static functions on the RiTa object. So you can access them as RiTa.XXX(), e.g., RiTa.phones(), RiTa.tokenize(), RiTa.conjugate(), and so on. This means that there is only one object to worry about importing into your programs.
• The RiMarkov and RiGrammar objects are significantly improved, and are now accessed via the RiTa.markov() and RiTa.grammar() static functions. RiTa grammars are still compatible with JSON, but can now include all the features of RiScript.
• RiScript is a new scripting language designed to allow authors to easily integrate static text with simple generative primitives (choices, sequences, transforms, etc.). RiScript is designed specifically for writers (for example, no quotes are required for strings) and can be run via RiTa.evaluate() or simply included in any RiTa grammar.
• RiTa v2 is available for Java (via Maven and Github Packages) and JavaScript (via NPM and UNPKG). It is also available, of course, as a library for Processing and p5.js.

Note: you can still find an archive of version 1.x here...