WSU talk: info on corpora and tech that will be discussed

I’ll give a talk on corpora and relevant technologies at Wayne State University in Detroit on the 19th of October at 11 AM. Here are some links, papers and slides that might be interesting for colleagues and students to follow and post process:

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Charty in JavaScript...

Ben Cool ported Charty (CFG-based Chart parser) to JavaScript for a class project and added in one version feature augmentation and unification to it. You can test it online. This is running on mobile devices like iPad or iPhone in Safari and on Android with a browser that has JavaScript support without any server-based component. See the documentation and test site here

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Building the Google V8 JavaScript engine as a Shell interpreter for Mac OS X

Here is an instruction for building the Google V8 JavaScript engine on Mac OS X as a shell tool for testing:

http://kourge.net/node/123

Just keep in mind, when you want to build it for Mac OS X Lion, the SCons call should be:

scons arch=x64

The rest of the build instructions goes unchanged. Also for the comment at the bottom of the page above, you would add:

scons arch=x64 sample=shell

and get a “shell” binary, which is the JavaScript standalone engine.

If you build the v8 binary, you can copy it for example to /usr/local/bin, to make it available in general.

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