[antlr-interest] A "lexicon" for ANTLR

[ttsoris <ttsoris at yahoo.com>]

Hi,
I was wondering if it is possible to create a parser with ANTLR 
to parse simple english sentences. The problem that I am thinking of
is the amount of recognized words. If I create rules like:
NOUN_SIN : "ant" | "cat" | "mouse" .... ;
NOUN_PLU : "ants" | "cats" | "mice" .... ;
with thousands of alternatives for nouns and some more for verbs and 
other parts of speech, it will produce enormous source files
and an enormous executable (and probably completely inefficient).
Is there a way of specifing an external "lexicon" for the lexemes 
(words), that is more efficient? Or is there another way I haven't 
think of?

Thank you,
Theofilos


 

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