[HN Gopher] Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis (1987) [pdf]
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       Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis (1987) [pdf]
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2024-05-13 11:41 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | mcswell wrote:
       | Around 1985, while I was working at the Artificial Intelligence
       | Center of (the now defunct) Boeing Computer Services, I evaluated
       | Fernando Pereira's NLP code written in Prolog for his
       | dissertation (he was one of the authors of the referenced 1987
       | article). My recollection is that his parser was very slow, and
       | difficult to extend (adding rules to account for other English
       | grammatical structures). Another fellow working at the AIC at the
       | time had written a parser in LISP, and I ended up writing the
       | English grammar for his parser.
       | 
       | That's not to say that LISP was faster than Prolog in general,
       | just this particular program was slow.
       | 
       | Now a days, of course nobody writes parsers or grammars by hand
       | like that. Which makes me sad, because it was a lot of fun :).
        
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