Processing toki pona with Perl

By Maxim Vuets (‎mvuets‎) from Kiev.pm, AmsterdamX.pm
Date: Saturday, 29 August 2015 09:30
Duration: 40 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: fun grammar language markov marpa nlp parsing perl simplicity tokipona

You can find more information on the speaker's site:

• Talk: https://github.com/mvuets/talk-processing-toki-pona-with-perl

toki pona is a constructed language, it strives for making the world simple. Perl is a programming language, it's known to be good at text processing (mangling? cruching?). They both are good, TIMTOWTDI, fun, and intensively rely on context.

In this talk I want to take Perl to the next level and demonstrate how it can be applied for language processing (mangling? crunching?) using toki pona as an example. We will take a look at parsing free-form text with a help of Marpa and writting a rubbish generator with the help of Markov chains.