Exploratory Parsing

Parser Stats<br>automatically and incrementally reported with each parse

See AboutUs Getting Started blog post announcing the open-sourcing of this technology. github

I gave a number of presentations including a lightning talk that was well received. sao hn

This was a web based experiment manager that could prepare, monitor, and refine task specific grammars turned into engines with a slightly enhanced version of Ian Piumarta's pegleg. site

Developed sediment inspired uniform sampling algorithm. Add elements at period p until sediment reaches limit. Then decimate the sediment by 1/2 and 2x the period. github

See related reservoir sampling which is happy to be uniformly random but not evenly spaced. wikipedia

My approach here was informed by my positive experience with XML Import in Ruby.