[antlr-interest] philosophy about translation

[Peter Paulus]

Hello all,

As I said on october 9 in this thread. There is some real interesting  
theory on syntax and syntax tree transformations in natural  
languages. See my message for pointers on that.

With kind regards,
Peter Paulus

On Oct 11, 2006, at 10:33 PM, Andy Tripp wrote:
>
> Thanks for the input. I think your response to translating "Woods  
> Eyes Masters" illustrates my point perfectly.
> That is, for real NLP, treewalking solves nothing. It's simply one  
> way to start approaching the problem,
> and by the time you tackle all the hard issues, treewalking is just  
> a tiny piece of the work, and it's not clear (to me)
> that it's even adding anything. To me, saying "high-level language  
> translation is mostly a matter of walking an AST"
> is like saying "Getting from NYC to LA is mostly a matter of  
> getting on a plane". Yea, that may be true. But if
> you're going to program a robot to get from NYC to LA, getting on  
> the plane will be just one tiny piece. To the
> point where it doesn't really matter whether the robot takes a  
> plane or a car.
>