1. What is this?
2. What does a syntactical tree structure look like?
3. How do I use it?
4. I don't know French but still want to try it. / What kind of crazy examples work in your parser?
5. How can I learn more?
6. If you have any questions
7. Why a Lisp Core with some Perl/Latex Additions ;)
2. What does a syntactical tree structure look like?
3. How do I use it?
4. I don't know French but still want to try it. / What kind of crazy examples work in your parser?
5. How can I learn more?
6. If you have any questions
7. Why a Lisp Core with some Perl/Latex Additions ;)
1. What is this?
- This is a natural language syntax parser written in CLISP and released under the GPL.
- You can enter some French sentence (with punctuation mark \": ! : ? .\" ) and it tries to find its syntactical structure in the form of a tree. This tree will then be generated and displayed as an image and as a list.
- As a side product it also returns the POS-Tags and possible verb properties such as tense, voice, form, person, number, gender.
- The core parsing algorithm uses combined recursion and memoization, a common top-down approach in dynamic programming.
- For further theoretical background information, see: Parse Trees , Syntax Theory , Government and binding and the Parser Documentation
2. What does a syntactical tree structure look like?
This is a sample output of the parser.
3. How do I use it?
- You can type in any grammatical (and lots of ungrammatical) French sentences and press enter.
- Please note that you can also type in certain phrases like \"le chat qui a mangé le chien\". Synthia will still parse your input, but intermediate categories are possible. These would often be eliminated if you used the phrase in a whole sentence.
- If you do have a sentence, do not forget the punctuation mark at the end.
4. I don't know French but still want to try it. / What kind of crazy examples work in your parser?
- Le fait qu'il le programme avec tous les autres constitue un bon exploit.
- Nous n'avons pas voulu aller à Avignon depuis hier.
- Deux milliards cinq cent millions deux cent cinquante mille habitants habitent dans xyzTown.
- Le Chiracisme est très complexe.
- Paul dit : J'aime les fraises.
- Est-ce que tu peux parler français?
- Peter aime Anna.
- Mangeons-nous de la salade?
- Je donne le livre de Pierre à Mme Mullé.
- more to come...
5. How can I learn more?
- Consult the Parser Documentation.
6. If you have any questions
- just post it here by clicking on the edit button on top or write me an email under
7. Why a Lisp Core with some Perl/Latex Additions 
from http://xkcd.com/c224.html
- To be honest, I wanted to better get to know Lisp and found it a suitable and fun language for the purpose at hand.