Re: Green underlines??

On Saturday 17 December 2005 05:50 pm, you wrote:
> We use link-grammar, which is a research project primarily on English
> grammar, I believe from a USA university. Google should be able to find
> the original project.

Thanks! Yes, Google found it, and it seems quite interesting (including that
it is from CMU (Carnegie-Mellon University), which is my alma mater ;-).

Here's the home page:

   * [[http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/][Link Grammar]]

(There is supposedly a forum, but the link is not working for me at the
moment:
http://hartford.lti.cs.cmu.edu/linkparser/phorum/
)

The following page has a list of 900 sentences or fragments that link grammar
successfully "parses" and identifies as proper or improper usage:

   * [[http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/batch.html][Samples]]

The following page allows you to type in a sentence or fragment and see how
link grammar "interprets" the sentence (complete with sentence diagrams).

   * [[http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/link/construct-page-4.cgi#submit]
[Parse a sentence]], and see
[[http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/explain-output.html#obscure][An Explanation
of the Link Parser Output]]

The program definitely has some limitations, but seems quite good. The
limitations include:

   * 60,000 word (form) vocabulary

   * focused on newspaper English rather than conversational English--I don't
know if it could be expanded to cover both, or if there are enough conflicts
that two parsers would have to be created, one for each style (and other
styles)?

   * limited idiom "vocabulary"

   * aimed only at English (but, on a tangent, there is an experimental
English -> German translator:
[[http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/link/construct-page-4.cgi#submit]])

(The limitations are paraphrased from
   * [[http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/][home page]] and
   * [[http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/explain-output.html#obscure][Why didn't
my sentence parse?]] (bottom of the page)
)

As an aside, I think this could be useful for native or non-native English
speakers who have to write in English--conceivably one could write a
sentence, then see how link-grammar interprets it to see if it really says
what you meant to say (within limits ;-).

(I did that with variations of the sentence: "The following page allows you to
type in a sentence or fragment and see how link grammar "interprets" the
sentence (complete with sentence diagrams)." I guess I proved that I'm not a
grammarian (and that process can be a little frustrating).)

Like the authors say, if you find sentences that are parsed / interpreted
incorrectly, they'd like to know about them.

Randy Kramer
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Received on Sun Dec 18 16:46:23 2005