Simple Parser for Natural Language?

Andres Valloud sqrmax at cvtci.com.ar
Sun Jul 18 20:58:17 UTC 1999


Hi.

Luciano Notarfrancesco wrote:

> I have been thinking about doing natural language processing in Squeak, but I got the conclusion that the most natural way to communication with Squeak is the Smalltalk language already implemented. Anyway, doing natural language understanding even in a limited form would be really great! And if you will talk about Squeak objects, then you don't need any knoweledge base but the image it self!
> I was planning to implement NGrammars for doing syntactic analysis in order to do better prosody generation for a text-to-speech system. I believe the N-grams stuff could be useful for your project.

You should take a look at the book Text Compression, Prentice Hall.

Andres.





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