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From: randyg@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Randy Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Chart parsers and PROLOG
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Date: Mon, 25-May-87 21:19:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 25 21:19:49 1987
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Keywords: chart parsers, PROLOG, natural language processing
Summary: They are OTHER ways.
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I can't seem to get a reply out, so...

Actually there are a number of formalisms, depending on the language. I use
(unofficially) McCord logical Form(slot and Grammer) stuff in prolog, plus
an occasional Conceptual Dependency type analyzer. Efficency depends mostly
on what you are trying to do and with what language.

To the fellow who asked about chart parsing:
If you want a good explanation of chart parsing, look at chapter 9 of 
Artificial Intelligence, tools, techniques and applications, by Shea and
Eisenstadt, Harper and Row, 1984.