Re: human language grammars for computers

On Sunday 02 November 2008 03:48, Gary Shannon wrote:
> --- On Sat, 11/1/08, Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> wrote:
> > From: Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...>
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm working my way through some books on the likes of
> > BNF, lex, yacc and so
> > on, and I'm wondering if anyone's got any pointers
> > to the way human language
> > grammars are parsed etc, by software?
>
> Google "Natural Language Processing".
>
> There are Context Free Grammar (CFG) parsers, Ordered CFG parsers (OCFG),
> link grammars, top down, bottom up, and many more.
>
> A lot of people are working on computer parsing, and there is a lot of
> literature on the subject. Myself, I've invented two new methods of machine
> parsing <http://fiziwig.com/parser/parse2.html> and I'm working on a third
> right now.
>
> --gary
> Google "Natural Language Processing".
>
> There are Context Free Grammar (CFG) parsers, Ordered CFG parsers (OCFG),
> link grammars, top down, bottom up, and many more.
>
> A lot of people are working on computer parsing, and there is a lot of
> literature on the subject. Myself, I've invented two new methods of machine
> parsing <http://fiziwig.com/parser/parse2.html> and I'm working on a third
> right now.
>
> --gary
Thanks
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