Simple chart parser with packing, implemented by Paula Buttery (pjb48). Sample grammar and lexicon. To run: java -jar ChartParser.jar Bugs can be reported to pjb48. Please note that this code is designed to illustrate the chart parsing algorithm in the NLP lecture notes in a simple and straightforward way. It is not intended as a demonstration of how a fast chart parser can be built. Before emailing us with suggestions for improvements to the Java code, please look at the parsing code in the PET system (http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/pet/). I would be delighted to hear of verifiable improvements to PET. Note that the pet.tgz file is 8 Meg. Ann Copestake January 2005