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Hanamaki
I am not sure what AI is -- or to say it in other
words -- whether something like AI really exists. Anyway
it seems much better to ask whether Perl is suitable for
a given task inside AI or NLP.<br><br>
Okay, I have to admit I never have done AI, and if you
ask me I will tell you that I have no clue about AI, I am just
a dumb <i>Natural Language Engineering specialist</i> who
calls himself sometimes <i>Computer Linguist</i> or
<i>Consulting Linguist</i> .<br><br>
And yes for my NLP work I almost exclusivly use Perl, because
its perfect for Data munging. While you will not write an
embedded speech recognition engine in Perl, more than 90%
of the actual work to produce such a beast can be done in
Perl. And its done in Perl.<br><br>
For <i>Corpus Linguistics</i> -- very often an important
starting point for Natural Language Engineering -- Perl is
a pretty good tool, not only for prototyping. <br><br>
Some lightweight parser you could realize in Perl as well,
but if you have large dictionaries etc. you probably will
need some XS or C programms for speed.<br><br>
Hanamaki
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