[Corpora-List] english parser

[Philipp Koehn]

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 at 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 at 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
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