[antlr-interest] Natural language parsing
Andy Tripp
antlr at jazillian.com
Tue Jan 8 07:44:41 PST 2008
Terence Parr wrote:
> But an amazingly large subset can be had with a top-down parser.
> Successful NLP work always tries to apply grammatical structure
> (according to best fit rather than deterministic like top-down LL
> stuff) not just word frequencies. Even backtracking is required by
> humans when reading sentences; antlr could handle that part too. :)
>
So how would ANTLR help in trying to figure out grammatical structure if
the approach is "best fit" rather than top-down LL?
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