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From: goer%sophist@GARGOYLE.UCHICAGO.EDU (Richard Goerwitz)
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Subject: parsing natural languages
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Date: 10 Oct 90 04:44:23 GMT
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I'm just curious what sort of work is being done in natural languages
using Icon.  Naturally, I know of my own work in phonology and phonologi-
cal databases.  I wonder, though, whether anyone out there has done very
much with the syntax of natural languages.  A while back, I was working
on several different approaches to bottom-up parsing in Icon, but got a
bit sidetracked.  I also tried implementing DFSA's in Icon, but found
it difficult to get them to run quickly, with reasonable memory require-
ments.  Anyway, you can't parse natural languages with a DFSA.  I'd ap-
preciate it very much if anyone who has worked in such areas - in Icon -
would drop me a line (or post a followup).

-Richard