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From: "Erik Rose" <erik(a)mozilla.com>
Say, while everybody's trying to figure out a
formal grammar, have you
had a look at Ward Cunningham's exploratory parsing kit? He gave me a
demo at OSBridge, and it's a really handy tool. Basically, it's a web
app with an asynchronous C backend. You paste a tentative PEG grammar
into a textarea, and it runs through whatever corpus you want, showing
you representative instances of how it does or does not match. He was
running it against the full English Wikipedia on his laptop, and it
took only half an hour or something—with results coming in as they
were generated, of course.
If I correctly understood what you said just there...
*wow*.
Cheers,
-- jra
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