<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <<a href="mailto:sk@cs.brown.edu">sk@cs.brown.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I agree with Eli (who knows more about this topic than we might imagine). It is very difficult to make these kinds of NL parsers scale to any complexity, and moreover, the kinds that do (those used in real software today) use a very different approach, so it's not like there's a smooth continuum from here to there. It would actually be somewhat misleading to show this and suggest that this is how real NL parsers work, just with more of the same. </blockquote><div> Shriram, The AI books that I had read before took the parsing approach, so I am not familiar with the alternative - would you happen to have links or googling phrases for finding the alternatives? Thanks, yc </div></div>