Re: [FWP] Natural language processing

[John Porter <jdporter@min.net>]

Bennett Todd wrote:
> 
> I'd also tend to guess that the actual job of trying to robustly
> pick a good parse would involve a fiendishly compute-intensive
> ...
> In any case, once the text has been tokenized, I'd expect the next
> step to be the sort of thing you'd want to write in C, for
> performance. Then graft it into perl with XS:-).

Why, just the other day I was checking out the Lingua::LinkParser
module, which is an XS wrapper for the LinkParser system which is
written in C.  I haven't played with the module, but LinkParser
is very impressive.


Also, while we're on the subject, I'ld point out that many NLP
tools have been written, or at least prototyped (yeah right), in
Perl, for example Eric Brill's famous parts-of-speech tagger.

-- 
John Porter

A pound of cure is worth a megaton of homeopathy.


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