Hi,<div><br></div><div>I am totally new to PET. Just this week I got it to build on mac os x 10.6 and was able to run some tests. I have been working with other parsers -- the Stanford PCFG-derived tool, the Malt dependency parser, the link grammar device -- and found that PET seems more robust and more prone to returning good trees compared to the others. Frankly I was surprised because, at least in my circles (US East Coast computational linguistics) I don't think PET is yet a household name.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm therefore curious about the current state of the project. I read the history on a wiki, and hopped around the mail lists, but wasn't able to get a sense of whether there is a significant community of developers and users. Is there a fair degree of forward momentum and enthusiasm? Given the quality of the system, I hope so.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, if one wanted to volunteer a bit as a programmer (work + dissertation mean not a lot of time available), where might one start? Tickets on the Trac?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br>
</div><div>jds </div>