[Corpora-List] free parser for english

[Yannick Versley]

> I need exactly a free parser for english in java that generates as output
> syntactic tree (with semantic dependency relations) of the sentence
> introduced as input. best regards;
Then I'd recommend the dependency parser made by Ryan McDonald, which can be 
freely downloaded from
http://ryanmcd.googlepages.com/MSTParser.html
It's written in Java, generates dependency relations and the code is 
reasonably easy to understand.

The dependencies you get from any parser are usually syntactically rather than 
semantically motivated, but you can usually get away with that.
(shameless plug: a colleague and I have written a paper on this latter topic 
which you can read online at http://www.versley.de/versley-zinsmeister.pdf ).

Best,
Yannick Versley
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