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Re: [PLUG] Calling John Kirk...or another November presenter for PLUG West
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On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:56:13AM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 10:11:25PM -0500, John Kirk wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 11:22:17PM -0400, Paul L. Snyder wrote:
> > > At the last PLUG West meeting, John Kirk volunteered to give a talk on
> > > the Perl Data Language. We haven't had any other offers for November, so
> > > far. Are you still interested, John?
> >
> > True. And yes, of course, though the lead time is lots shorter now.
> >
> > > Or, is anyone else interested in stepping up to give a presentation for
> > > the November PLUG West meeting on Thursday, 15 November?
> >
> > On the PLUG website it looks like the 15 Nov talk is already scheduled now,
> > so I gather it's moot for me to respond here. Maybe some other time.
>
> Well, I only volunteered (off the list) after Paul said he couldn't
> track down you
Our conversation at the meeting was that he could reach me via my email
address from when I RSVP'd for attending the meeting. Googling my name isn't
very helpful unless you add "perl", or somesuch, to narrow it down.
> or Jim Trocki. I've already got the slides done, since
> I gave the talk at the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop a few weeks ago.
> Here's the abstract:
>
> Perl's a great language for doing text processing, and that makes it
> a great language for doing Natural Language Processing as well. CPAN
> has an abundance of NLP modules, ranging from modules that pluralize
> English words and sort Klingon, to interfaces to complex databases
> like WordNet. In fact, there are so many NLP modules on CPAN that
> trying to make sense of them all can be a daunting task for any Perl
> programmer. In this talk I'll do a survey of NLP modules on CPAN,
> concentrating on the modules under Lingua::EN::*. I'll also show how
> to use Perl to interface with the CMU link grammar parser libraries
> and with the WordNet database.
>
> I could do this talk this month, or next, or whenever. But I'd like
> to hear about PDL, too. People keep telling me I should try it, but I
> can never wrap my head around how it works.
Go ahead this time, of course. I enjoy using Perl for NLP, and would
love to hear your talk. Dunno quite why we didn't just make the final
decision at the last meeting when the subject came up, since the lead
time was already short. I'm looking forward to your presentation.
They've always been entertaining and valuable.
regards, -- John Kirk
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