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What is Cahoots?

Cahoots is software that attempts to categorize snippets of text into one of several categories. It runs a series of parsers, and returns a list of potential datatypes and interpretations with confidence values. In short, it attempts to "comprehend" the snippet you provide.

Its ideal use is within a daemon or service with a long life/execution time. It can also be run as a standalone Cahoots server (detailed here).

What is Cahoots NOT?

Cahoots is not meant for diagramming and mining large sets of text. While a text mining engine could utilize Cahoots in order to target specific snippets that it mined out of a large set of text, Cahoots is not meant to mine text.

Cahoots is not software that you would integrate into a non-daemon web app that would bootstrap and instantiate it on every page view. The bootstrap process can be somewhat intensive and should only run once (during an application's launch process).

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Requirements and Dependencies

Development Environment Setup

Cahoots Server Setup

Using Cahoots In Your Application