goer%sophist@GARGOYLE.UCHICAGO.EDU (Richard Goerwitz) (10/10/90)
I'm just curious what sort of work is being done in natural languages using Icon. Naturally, I know of my own work in phonology and phonologi- cal databases. I wonder, though, whether anyone out there has done very much with the syntax of natural languages. A while back, I was working on several different approaches to bottom-up parsing in Icon, but got a bit sidetracked. I also tried implementing DFSA's in Icon, but found it difficult to get them to run quickly, with reasonable memory require- ments. Anyway, you can't parse natural languages with a DFSA. I'd ap- preciate it very much if anyone who has worked in such areas - in Icon - would drop me a line (or post a followup). -Richard