Re: NLP; recognizing syntactical parts

[email protected] (Jon Orwant) Sat, 2 Oct 2004 19:58:09 -0400
Newsgroups perl.ai
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Lingua::LinkParser

On Oct 2, 2004, at 7:17 PM, Emil Perhinschi wrote:

> I followed with interest the thread "Just starting out.. newbie help 
> :)" and it made me believe you won't be extremely annoyed by another 
> newbie asking questions :)
>
> My problem:  I need to index texts against a list of relevant words. 
> Doing this by hand for a number of small sample made me think that 
> ranking the relevance of a text by the frequency of words that are 
> subjects or verbs gives somewhat better results than simply counting 
> the frequency of all words parts that match the list.
>
> My question: is there any module that would help with recognizing 
> syntactical parts in a text written in English?
>
> Searching with Google got me a lot of results that were course 
> outlines or assignments. On CPAN  I found only the Lingua::* modules, 
> but if there is one that fits what I need, then probably I failed to 
> see it among the over 600 hits ...
>
> thank you,
>
> Emil Perhinschi