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

[David Benn]

Projects like Attempto controlled English:

	http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/groups/req/ftp/papers/ACE_Manual.pdf

go some way towards this kind of thing.

Rgds,

DJB

iank at bearcave.com 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?
> 
>   I just purchased an excellent book "Foundations of Statistical
>   Natural Language Processing" by Manning and Schutze (there is an
>   umlaut over the u), MIT Press, 2000.  To be guilty of massive
>   understatement, building a parse tree for a language like English is
>   very different from building a parse tree for Java or any other
>   programming language.  Programming languages are designed to be
>   compiled (well, OK, there's C++ and Verilog).  The grammar rules for
>   a natural language are much more complex and you would have to have
>   a very sophisticated scanner (parser front end).
> 
>   The attraction of parser generators is that they save you time and
>   make changes easier when building parsers for programming languages.
>   I'm not sure that ANTLR would provide much savings in natural
>   language processing, considering all of the support software you
>   would need.
> 
>   Ian
>   www.bearcave.com
> 
> 
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