[antlr-interest] Any ANTLR based parser for the English language?

[Terence Parr]

On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 07:07 PM, Addi Jamshidi wrote:

> Is there (or actually has anyone tried) writing a
> parser for the English Language (or for that matter
> any language - e.g. French, German, etc.) with ANTLR?

ANTLR is designed specifically to handle the non-ambiguous case; i.e., 
the non-natural language case. ;)  There are parser generators that 
will build all possible parse trees for you and then it's up to you to 
figure out which is the "right" one.  ;)

Terence
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Co-founder, http://www.jguru.com
Creator, ANTLR Parser Generator: http://www.antlr.org
Lecturer in Comp. Sci., University of San Francisco


 

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