A user friendly ATN Programming Environment (APE)

Abstract

APE is a workbench to develop ATN grammars based on an active chart parser. It represents the networks graphically and supports the grammar writer by win-(tow-and menu-based debugging techniques.

Concurrent, object-oriented natural language parsing: the ParseTalk model

“…The availability of a proper development environment for grammars and parsers is of major relevance for projects dealing with non-trivial subsets of natural languages and aiming at a sufficient linguistic coverage of the associated grammar specifications (cf., e.g., Haugeneder and Gehrke, 1986;White, 1987;Boguraev, Carroll, Briscoe and Grover, 1988;Nakamura, Tsujii and Nagao, 1988). These systems provide a coherent framework for entering and updating linguistic specifications via rule, lexicon, and constraint editors.…”