>> It sounds to me like QuickSilver or Bulter on Mac. >> The concept is that after a keybord short-cut, >> a window shows up and users can type. >> Then depending on what they type, actions get fired. >> While I like this idea, I think the core of this application is >> an engine which it can process natural laugnage, >> ex. it can parse a string into a phone number or address, >> or an application name. >> I wonder whether it can be easily done ? > > it's not really a full featured natural language processing, we can > use an easy to parse grammar... > The newton was a bit closer to natural language processing, but it > only did so and worked ok because the set of keywords used to infer a > request was quite small. > Usually when you work with a small vocabulary it's not very hard to > infer proper queries (and discard the rest of the vocabulary that > doesn't blend in / isn't useful). It works surprisingly well (as in, > wow the computer understand me, while in fact it's merely a trick only > possible because of the limited vocabulary).
I think this is a great idea -- it would be nice to be able to do both the natural language processing type stuff where the system interprets what you want from the small vocabulary, and to be able to add short-cut commands for explicit tasks (see Sogudi[1] for a browser specific version). J. [1] http://www.kitzkikz.com/Sogudi _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
