Re: [FWP] Natural language processing

[Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>]

Obligatory mention of Parse::RecDescent.

Not that I'd do it that way; the stop list pruning and destemming Kingpin 
pointed out is the way to go.  I am evaluating search engines at the moment 
and the vast majority of the ones that claim to do 'natural language 
processing' or 'semantic recognition' are just doing this.  And the ones 
that do more don't produce any better results.

I was recently copied on a document that had been written in MS Word and 
exhibited no squiggly underlines.  It was full of spelling and grammatical 
errors, however.  I keep it as evidence of the general pointlessness of 
computerized English grammar parsers.


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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies


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