<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 05/03/2008, at 12:38 AM, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">Groovy, which is built on top of Java, you get flexibility of<br>scripting language, but at the same time access to libraries written<br>in Java (e.g. Stanford parsers). In the same way, JPython might be an<br>interesting consideration.</blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I use Python as my main programming language, and JPype for access to Java libraries. It allows you to call Java directly from Python, and is handy for using Java stuff such as the aforementioned Stanford parsers.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>It's also pretty easy to write a wrapper to call C or C++ from Python to use things like the Charniak or Link parsers.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Brett Powley</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>Brett Powley -- Research Fellow - PhD Candidate<br>Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University, Australia<br>p: +61-402-013050 e: <a href="mailto:bpowley@ics.mq.edu.au">bpowley@ics.mq.edu.au</a><br>w: <a href="http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~bpowley">http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~bpowley</a><br>faciendi plures libros nullus est finis<br>frequensque meditatio carnis adflictio est<br>--------------------------------------------------------------</div></div></body></html>