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From: vannoord@let.rug.nl (Gertjan van Noord)
Subject: Re: Parser Challenge
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In article <19970108214400.QAA15338@ladder01.news.aol.com> jyaccian@aol.com (JYACCian) writes:
>Has anyone tried the capability described here? Tried to log on to the web
>page, but it was blank.
>
[... couple of idiotic statements of the type `everyone else is crazy,
and we are incredibly intelligent, great, new'  by the people at
`Ergo Linguistic Technologies'

>>To log on:
>>1.      Go to www.ergo-ling.com
>>2.      Click on "Parser Demo" in the "Restricted Access" section of the
>web
>>        page.
>>3.      Input AT LEAST name and email address or it won't work.
>>4.      Read the instructions and type in sentences.
>>
>>
>>Please forward your comments to this list or to either Derek Bickerton or
>>myself at:
>>
>>derek@Hawaii.edu
>>
>>bralich@Hawaii.edu
>>

well I've tried it, it's open only during 9am - 5pm Hawaii Time.

the first sentence I tried was too long. The next few sentences couldn't
be parsed. I then succeeded with a `det n v det n' type of sentence.
For the sentence `is the abbot here' it provided an analysis, including
the remarks that:

Change Tense
 Simple Future
                       - will be the abbot here
 Present Modal
                       - could be the abbot here
 Past Progressive
                       - was being the abbot here
 Present Progressive
                       - is being the abbot here
 Future Progressive
                       - will be being the abbot here
 Progressive Modal
                       - could be being the abbot here
 Past Perfect
                       - had been the abbot here
 Present Perfect
                       - has been the abbot here

... all of which seem ungrammatical to me..





note that all of the sentences I've tried can in fact be parsed by
an existing NLP system (Alvey grammar).



the help page states that:

> We hope you enjoy this demonstration of our parsing technology. 
> More sophisticated and more complete demonstrations can be arranged. 

what's `more complete' supposed to mean?

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