Ask HN: How do I start with implementing a probabilistic parser?

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11 years ago

I have got the inspiration for this from the probabilistic parser from wit.ai. It is available on GitHub, wit.ai/duckling[1].

It parses natural language having date/time components into a timestamp structured object.

For example, the phrase "this christmas morning" gets transformed into

"From Friday, 25 December 2015 at 4:00:00 +0000 (UTC) to Friday, 25 December 2015 at 12:00:00 +0000 (UTC)"

I have a similar idea in my mind and I want to try it out. It will also do the same thing, parsing some natural language syntax subset to some structured data objects.

Where should I start from? Any great resources will work for me; blogs, books, papers etc.

[1] https://github.com/wit-ai/duckling

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