Re: [Haskell-cafe] The best way to call Java from Haskell?

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:56 AM, dokondr wrote:

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Yitzchak Gale wrote:

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Just out of curiosity, why do you not consider GF at all similar? To an outsider like me, there does appear to be quite a bit of similarity.

As I understand GF is well suited for parsing well defined formal languages. Not sure that GF can be used as NLP parser for blog messages that I need.

That is correct - more or less. GF is a very expressive language, and it can handle a great deal of natural language, but it /does/ require that the input be grammatically correct, and it is difficult to work in unexpected vocabulary. GF is fantastic for making flexible Controlled Natural Languages, and it excels at producing human-readable text, but it is an entirely different beast from a statistical natural language parser, such as Stanford's. re: the original question -- The best method I've found for interfacing Haskell / Java for NLP is to share data with some common format, such as UIMAs CAS serialization. We really ought to start up a group of people interested in that over on the Haskell NLP list and see what we have if we pool all our efforts. --Rogan

Please correct me if I am wrong. As a general note, Java has tons of useful libraries that will take infinite time to re-implement in Haskell. To my mind it makes a lot of sense to have a reliable mechanism to call Java from Haskell. BTW, yet another way to do this: wrap Java library in RESTFUL web service ) -- All the best, Dmitri O. Kondratiev

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