Re: [Corpora-List] english parser

From: Philipp Koehn (pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2007 - 13:16:03 MET

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    Hi,

    here is a survey of what parsers NLP researchers use for their
    work: http://nlpers.blogspot.com/2007/01/survey-of-parser-usage.html
    That may be an interesting starting point.

    -phi

    On 1/16/07, Eric Atwell <eric@comp.leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
    > 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;
    > >>
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