Hi all,

are there any updates on this topic? Tahnks

El martes, 27 de diciembre de 2016, 6:24:48 (UTC+1), Jason Hemann escribió:
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> Ken,
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> That's on the order of what I was expecting, although it's more 
> sophisticated than I'd figured on. 
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> * Feature constraints sound promising, but AFAIK not implemented in any 
> Kanrens
> * Your encoding is pretty darn cool, but it maybe isn't the clearest way 
> to encode the data.
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> The other options I'm coming up with are: 
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> * hack up the unifier and add it there
> * implement a feature-structure-unify as a miniKanren relation.
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> I think the final choice is the traditional way to do this in Prolog, yes? 
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> JBH
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> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Chung-chieh Shan <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
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>> But we want the alists
>>     ((a . _.0) (b . y))
>> and
>>     ((b . _.1) (a . x))
>> to unify, yielding the mgu
>>     ((a . x) (b . y))
>> or equivalently
>>     ((b . y) (a . x))
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>> And we want the alists
>>     ((a . x))
>> and
>>     ((b . y))
>> to unify, yielding the same mgu as above.
>>
>> So the only way I know to encode (even unnested) feature structures
>> using trees is to map each feature name to a globally fixed address
>> in a binary tree.  For example if we decide globally that "a" maps
>> to the address (left left right) and "b" maps to the address
>> (left right right left) then the alist above
>>     ((a . _.0) (b . y))
>> can be encoded by the tree
>>     (((_.2 . _.0) . (_.3 . (y . _.4))) . _.5)
>>
>> Maybe this is what Jason has in mind?  It's related to expressing
>> memoization as a lazy data structure.
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>> On 2016-12-24T12:07:14-0500, Dan Friedman wrote:
>> > I agree with Jason, processing alists (even split alists)i standard 
>> fare.
>> > Nested alists might want some constraints  Haven't given that 
>> observation
>> > much thought.
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>> > On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Jason Hemann <[email protected] 
>> <javascript:>>
>> > wrote:
>> > > I think these can be encoded using trees, yes? (Wiki seems to also 
>> suggest
>> > > so, if I'm reading that correctly). I know of no implementations that
>> > > implement feature constraints presently, but I know those have been 
>> investigated
>> > > in other contexts
>> > > <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0743106694900442>.
>> > >
>> > > On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Amirouche Boubekki <
>> > > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Did anyone implement minikanren for feature structure
>> > >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_structure>?
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