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Re: human language grammars for computers

From:Alex Fink <000024@...>
Date:Saturday, November 1, 2008, 16:00
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 00:17:08 +1300, Wesley Parish
<wes.parish@...> wrote:

>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?
I recently bumped into (probably via Language Log) a Python natural language processing toolkit which had an accompanying book that treated parsing techniques: http://nltk.sourceforge.net/index.php/Book esp. chapters 6 through 8. Alex