Disclaimer: just a SymPy user, so I don't speak for the developers/maintainers.
One of the coolest things about Wolfram Alpha is its natural language capability. When a user sees a simple text box (e.g., like in Sympy Gamma), the instinct is probably to put in a natural language query, not code in a structured language. The ability to handle some form of natural language input would be a really great feature, I think. Maybe it is out of scope for this project (and possibly for SymPy entirely), but it is something interesting to think about. The ability to enter something like "integrate sin x / x from 0 to pi" is very neat. I think it might be more useful than some of the other ideas in your proposal (interpreting Matlab & Maxima, interpreting MathML -- nobody is going to enter MathML by hand). I'm not sure if NLTK (http://nltk.org/) will be of any help in this department. On Friday, May 3, 2013 10:42:13 AM UTC-4, Angus Griffith wrote: > > I had a look at the other proposals and realized someone else is apply for > the assumptions project and they seem to be much better prepared than I am, > so I've decided to change projects. My new project is something I have more > experience in: > Parsing<https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSOC-2013-Application-Angus-Griffith:-Parsing>. > > I know it's last minute, but any feedback would be really appreciated. > > @Stefan Krastanov: Thanks for the tips! > > On Friday, 3 May 2013 18:58:28 UTC+10, Stefan Krastanov wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> More work on the assumption module is certainly needed and welcomed. >> You should learn about the differences between the old and the new >> assumption modules and study the other GSoC proposals about >> assumptions (they are public on our github wiki). It would also be >> useful for you if you look at the numerous discussions on the subject >> in the last two months (check the mailing list archive). >> >> Your proposal will have better chances if you show good understanding >> of the current codebase. >> >> Also, check our wiki for information on requirements - for instance we >> expect all applicants to provide some patch on github to gauge them. >> >> On 3 May 2013 07:50, Angus Griffith <16s...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > My name is Angus and I'm applying for GSOC 2013 under Sympy. Normally I >> > maintain and develop Mathics (another CAS which uses Sympy >> extensively). I >> > hope to work on the assumptions module and fix as many assumption >> related >> > issues as possible. Here's a link to my application >> > Application-Angus-Griffith:-Assumptions in the wiki. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Angus >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "sympy" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to sympy+un...@googlegroups.com. >> > To post to this group, send email to sy...@googlegroups.com. >> > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en-US. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > >> > >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
