On 8/16/07, David Chisnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 16 Aug 2007, at 17:05, Nicolas Roard wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> A 'natural language' parser for a vocabulary the size used in text
> adventures is really easy to write (even in FORTRAN). I think it
> would be nice if we defined some simple imperative sentence
> structures (e.g. '{verb} to {noun} with {noun}') and allowed
> components to register nouns and verbs (maybe even noun and verb
> phrases) which would then be turned into scripting actions.
>
> The nice side effect of this is that it makes localisation much
> easier; you define corresponding imperative structures in different
> languages and then someone just needs to translate the noun and verb
> list for each application. I'm not sure it would work well for
> languages like Japanese, where the grammar isn't tied to sentence
> structure, but for European languages it should work well.
>
> David
>
Another application of this engine is automatically detecting certain
data, like phone number in an email, or address in a web page.
Google Mail can detect an address in your mail and gives an optino to
look it up in Google Map.
It is close to GNUstep system services, but goes further by providing
a visual hint that certain text can be used for other actions.
Yen-Ju
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