Puck, a high-speed GPU-powered parser

[David Hall]

Hi everyone,

I'm pleased to announce yet another new parser called Puck. Puck is a lightning-fast parser that uses Nvidia GPUs to do most of its computation. It is capable of parsing over 400 sentences per second, or about half a million words per minute. (Most CPU constituency parsers of its quality are on the order of 10 sentences per second.)

Puck is based on the same grammars used in the Berkeley Parser, and produces nearly identical trees. Puck is only available for English right now.

For more information about Puck, please see the project github page (https://github.com/dlwh/puck) , or the accompanying paper (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~dlwh/papers/gpuparser.pdf).

Because of some its dependencies are not formally released yet (namely the wonderful JavaCL library), I can't push artifacts to Maven Central. Instead I've uploaded a fat assembly jar here: http://www.scalanlp.org/releases/puck-assembly-0.1.jar (See the readme on github for how to use it.) It's better used as a command line tool, anyway.

Thanks!

-- David

[Jason Baldridge]

This is awesome, great work!

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Jason Baldridge
Associate Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, UT Austin
Co-founder & Chief Scientist, People Pattern
http://www.jasonbaldridge.com
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