Re: [Corpora-List] english parser

From: Eric Atwell (eric@comp.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2007 - 12:27:52 MET

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    For a practical comparison of a range of English parsers, see
    Sutcliffe R et al, Industrial Parsing of Software Manuals. Rodopi. 1996

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Industrial-Parsing-Software-Language-Computers/dp/904200102X/sr=8-2/qid=1168946089/ref=sr_1_2/202-4742685-7046268?ie=UTF8&s=books

    ... but before you buy, check the review in Computational Linguistics
    journal by John Carroll:

    http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=972793&jmp=references&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE,ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618#references

    This book is nearly 10 years old, but still a useful overview of a
    number of English parsers "side by side", compared in tests with a
    common corpus of sentences to parse. It's particularly useful to help
    you decide what form of output is best suited to your specific needs -
    different parsers produce quite different sorts of "parse trees".
    Once you've chosen the output parse-tree format that suits you, you
    can easily find the latest version of the parser via WWW / Google.
    For example, the book includes a chapter by Atro Voutilainen on an early
    version of the Connexor parser; if you like it, follow his URL to the
    current version!

    Another useful source of English parser info is
    http://www.alias-i.com/lingpipe/web/competition.html

    - LingPipe is a free-to-use toolkit of NLP tools, including parser;
    the LingPipe people have put together a webpage listing the
    "competition", rival NLP toolkits, many of whcih also include parsers.
    You should take some time to browse through this web-page (and linked
    pages) to decide whcih tool-parser is best suited to your individual
    needs, there isnt really a "one-fit-for-all" single best parser.

    I hope this helps... (even though I'm sitting on the fence)

    Eric Atwell, Leeds University

    On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Atro Voutilainen wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > Have you tried Connexor?
    > http://www.connexor.com/demo/syntax/
    >
    > -- Atro Voutilainen
    >
    > ben dbabis samira <bendbabis_samira@yahoo.fr> kirjoitti:
    >> Hi,
    >> I'll be grateful if you give me references of the best english parsers to
    >> analyze sentences;
    >> thanks for help;
    >>
    >> Samira BEN DBABIS
    >> MIRACL laboratory
    >> Sfax, TUNISIA
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    >>
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Eric Atwell,
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Faculty of Engineering, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, England
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