Natural language parsing (NLP) with D

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/20/2015 08:01 AM, Eliatto wrote:
> Hello! I am rather new to D ecosystem (I am a C++ developer). I know
> that there are code-dlang and awesome-D collections of libraries. But I
> have not found any NLP libraries in D
> (https://github.com/jogojapan/drulex is not worth mentioning), though
> there are Go and Rust NLP libraries on github (they are new languages
> too). Why is this field unpopular among (D)evelopers?
> What can be used for base POS tagging and NP chunking of English texts
> instead? I mean wrapping some C/C++ library without porting. Which one
> will cause minimal headache during glueing with D?
> P.S. I suppose that it will be nice to see the histogram of libs using
> "awesome-D" list. For example, one rectangle shows 3D engine
> percentage(libs number divided by total awesome-D libs count and
> multiplied by 100), another shows logger libs percentage...

In my NLP days I remember the common procedure was to run 
taggers/chunkers/etc as processes driven by scripts. That said, a 
library offers more options and it would be interesting to see such in 
code.dlang.org. -- Andrei