PBK Research writes: > As a supplementary point, I am trying to use PetitParser to parse natural > language. From the examples it is clear that PP is designed with formal > languages in mind. Am I wasting my time using it on natural languages? Has > anyone else tried this?
What are you trying to do with natural language? Do you have highly regular input and a somewhat restricted domain? I have used Prolog DCGs to mess around with this kind of thing, and if you have a lot of control over the input and your expectations you can make progress with a tool for formal languages, but if you want to do something sophisticated or support arbitrary inputs, you're probably wasting your time. -- Daniel Lyons
