[antlr-interest] Legal Document Parsing. Can ANTLR help?

["Paul Bouché (NSN)"]

Tommy Nordgren schrieb:
> On Jul 15, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Marco Bagni wrote:
>
>   
>> HI,
>>
>> I have the need to perform a syntactical parsing of various legal  
>> documents
>> with the result to identify and extract each article and sub- 
>> paragraph.
>>
>> The documents are text like:
>>
>> Act. 123 Bla Bla Bla
>>
>> Art. 1
>> (Article title)
>>
>> Article body with sub paragraph (at most three levels of sub
>> paragraph identified by numbers (1, 2, 3...) and letters (a, b,
>> c...) and roman literals (i, ii, iii, vi, etc.)
>>
>> Unfortunately the real life is a bit tougher than this, i.e. in some
>> documents you have the string Art. in others Article; sometimes the
>> Article title is present sometimes not, and so on.
>>
>> Do you think that ANTLR can help in generating a parser that  
>> identifies
>> and extracts the parts of the legal documents labelling  each part  
>> with
>> the proper hierarchical structure?
>>
>> So far I am doing a prototype in PERL but taking into account all the
>> possible variations that can be found in the plethora of documents I  
>> have
>> to "ingest" it seems a quite cumbersome activity to code all the
>> exceptions.
>>
>> Thanks for your support.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Marco Bagni
>>
>>
>>     
>
> 	You can probably not use ANTLR or indeed any other parser generator  
> for this purpose.
> Parser generators are for computer languages - not natural languages.
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> Tommy Nordgren
> tommy.nordgren at comhem.se
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