Plink
- My doctoral work was developing the
plink parser.
- The idea is that it parses like humans parse.
- One of the side benefits in parsing like humans, is that
it's pretty easy to understand ungrammatical text.
- Unlike newspaper articles, conversations with users
often have ungrammatical text.
- Dealing with ungrammaticality is one of the problems
with conversational systems.
- So, we have a leg up here.
- Plink is written to be largely domain general. However,
it can be modified for improved performance in
a restricted domain.
- Domain specificity could allow for real improvements
in performance.
