Started a wiki page on this topic:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://wiki.delph-in.net/moin/UnificationApi">http://wiki.delph-in.net/moin/UnificationApi</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Berthold Crysmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crysmann@ifk.uni-bonn.de">crysmann@ifk.uni-bonn.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">You should probably talk to Bernd Kiefer. He's working on an API for<br>
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On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 09:21 +0200, W.P. McNeill (UW) wrote:<br>
> I've talked to a couple of you about this at the Barcelona summit but<br>
> I wanted to send a broader email.<br>
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> One thing I'd love to have is a fast, efficient, library-based<br>
> implementation of feature structure unification. Something written in<br>
> C and separate from the cheap code so that it could be called by other<br>
> programs/scripting languages, NLTK etc.<br>
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> I'm picturing a user-provided function for value unification whose<br>
> prototype looks something like this:<br>
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> bool value_unify(char *value1, char* value2)<br>
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> so that the whole issue of what kind of grammar you have is kept<br>
> separate.<br>
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> Has anyone ever tried to create a library like this? If not, where is<br>
> the unification source code in cheap so that I can get an idea of how<br>
> it works?<br>
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> I have absolutely no time to look at this in the near future, but I've<br>
> been curious about it for a while so it would be good information to<br>
> know and have archived.<br>
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> --<br>
> W.P. McNeill<br>
> <a href="http://staff.washington.edu/billmcn/index.shtml" target="_blank">http://staff.washington.edu/billmcn/index.shtml</a><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>W.P. McNeill<br><a href="http://staff.washington.edu/billmcn/index.shtml">http://staff.washington.edu/billmcn/index.shtml</a><br>Sent from Barcelona, Spain
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