Posted by: linasv on: 2009-07-06
The link-grammar parser uses labeled links to connect together pairs of words. In order to capture the idea of proper grammatical construction, any given word is only allowed to have very specific links to its right or left: for example, verbs have their subject on the left, and an object on the right. Link-grammar defines [...]
Posted by: linasv on: 2009-01-12
I’ve recently been tinkering with a mechanism for determining word senses based on their grammatical usage. This has me pretty excited, because, so far, it seems to be reasonably accurate (i.e. not terrible), and lightning-fast. I’m doing this by doing some heavy statistical NLP work, computing statistical correlations between word senses and syntax — specifically, [...]
Posted by: linasv on: 2008-08-17
I hack, heads-down, on link-grammar every now and then. Yesterday, I fixed another round of broken parse rules: making sure that sentences like “John is altogether amazingly quick.” “That one is marginally better” “I am done working” “I asked Jim a question” “I was told that crap, too” all parse correctly.
Solving these required adding new [...]