On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Timothy S. Nelson <wayl...@wayland.id.au>wrote:
> Hi. I'm wondering if any thought has been given to natural language > processing with Perl 6 grammars. > No specific tool is best suited for natural language processing. There was apparently a time in which everyone thought that a formal grammar could clearly define any natural language, but I don't think anyone succeeded at creating a complete formal grammar for any language other than something like Esperanto. Modern NLP seems to be focused on (empirical based) stochastic models or other statistical models. Most languages can be used to build and represent such systems. That being said, there are sub-fields where it might help, such as stemming, POS tagging, or text generation. Perl 6 grammars seem best suited to reduce the workload to build and manipulate parse trees or lattice models. Depending on what task is at hand, this may be of no use. I am finishing a masters in NLP and after all this work, p6 grammars wouldn't have helped much. -Jason "s1n" Switzer
