Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Natural Language Parser Date: 30 Sep 2015 11:05:06 GMT Organization: Rob Warnock, Consulting Systems Architect Lines: 45 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <15-09-032@comp.compilers> References: <15-09-025@comp.compilers> <15-09-028@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1443663746 34332 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (1 Oct 2015 01:42:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 01:42:26 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: parse Posted-Date: 30 Sep 2015 21:42:26 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1627 George Neuner wrote: +--------------- | Seima Rao wrote: | > I am looking for a C++ API based English Language Parser. ... | > This is my only requirement. I dont need any semanticizing | > artefacts. | | You need to be aware that natural languages *can't* be parsed | without semantics - i.e. without considering "parts of speech". | | Depending on context, the same word may represent, e.g., a verb, an | adverb, or even a (type of) noun. What part of speech the word | represents in context determines the ultimate meaning of the sentence. | Even which part of speech a word represents may be controversial. Most | human writing (and speaking) is quite imprecise: most sentences can be | parsed in more than one way, and the meanings of the various parsings | may be very different. +--------------- Exactly. Consider the classical "Buffalo" example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence in the English language, used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs. ... Thomas Tymoczko has pointed out that there is nothing special about eight "buffalos"; any sentence consisting solely of the word "buffalo" repeated any number of times is grammatically correct. ... Versions of the linguistic oddity can be constructed with other words which similarly simultaneously serve as collective noun, adjective, and verb, some of which need no capitalization (such as "police"). -Rob ----- Rob Warnock 627 26th Avenue San Mateo, CA 94403