On 8/16/07, Yen-Ju Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
An example is that TextEditor provides two services:
(1) Open new document with selected text
(2) Open file with selected path.
If the selected text is not a path, the option (2) should be disable,
otherwise, users get a "file not found" error.
Yen-Ju
>
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