Re: I may be teaching my colleagues Marpa

2014-05-08 Thread Sven Putteneers
On 05/08/2014 03:36 PM, Paul Bennett wrote: Yesterday, I was approached at work about the possibility of leading a seminar on Marpa . I feel thrills of excitement and of terror in equal proportion, but I'm going to start penciling together a few slides and see how it goes. [...] Also, if

Re: I may be teaching my colleagues Marpa

2014-05-08 Thread clueless newbie
I too would be interested. On Thursday, May 8, 2014 8:36:22 AM UTC-5, Paul Bennett wrote: Yesterday, I was approached at work about the possibility of leading a seminar on Marpa . I feel thrills of excitement and of terror in equal proportion, but I'm going to start penciling together a few

Understanding partial grammar match success/failure

2014-05-08 Thread perl . testing
First off I'm a new user trying to understand the Marpa module. It's been a difficult ride thus far as I come from the regex side with no experience in lexing vs. parsing prior to Marpa. The below questions here are essentially crossposted from here

Re: Understanding partial grammar match success/failure

2014-05-08 Thread perl . testing
A that makes sense. So I do not rely on the reader to throw an error to determine parse failure, I check if the value returned from the read method is defined. The reader will only throw an exception in cases where the grammar specifically rejected the input string. Thanks Jeffrey, that

Re: Natural Language Processing

2014-05-08 Thread Deyan Ginev
Hi Ron, Yes, I am the author of the wrapper. I am evaluating SENNA for my PhD work and ended up writing a Perl wrapper for it. Is there anything you'd like to ask? Greetings, Deyan On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 1:10 AM, Ron Savage r...@savage.net.au wrote: Anybody familiar with

Re: Natural Language Processing

2014-05-08 Thread Deyan Ginev
Oh! And while I am at it, big thanks to Jeffrey for answering my Perl-XS integration questions! As I mentioned on IRC, I was using Marpa's XS components, both to educate myself and as a practical example of how to write good XS code. I'm quite happy that things ended up working out. Deyan On

Re: Natural Language Processing

2014-05-08 Thread Jeffrey Kegler
When it came to Parsing Theory, I was an eager volunteer for frontline duty. When it came to XS programming, I was one of those who had to be drafted at gunpoint. But it certainly is pleasant to hear that, based on the end result, it looks to others like I know what I am doing. Of course

Re: Natural Language Processing

2014-05-08 Thread Ron Savage
Hi On Friday, 9 May 2014 12:06:43 UTC+10, Deyan Ginev wrote: Hi Ron, Yes, I am the author of the wrapper. I am evaluating SENNA for my PhD work and ended up writing a Perl wrapper for it. Is there anything you'd like to ask? No thanx. I encountered the link via