Right again Elijah. I've tried a number of tricks in deciphering language use. It's really hit and miss.
When software starts doing things automatically it really turns people off. Software is wrong "often enough", or when it makes decisions people can't easily understand, they lose trust in it. We could certainly have the poller just RIP through the database and IMMEDIATELY start whacking feeds. This would end up being a HUGE public relations disaster as it tore through entire ranges of feeds and left their authors feeling attacked by it. No, we decided long ago it was better to leave things up to real people and try to give them better tools. This has not be an easy task. Anyway, I wonder if someone could raise this issue again with the current version of Wordpress and suggest how to best deal with it? I think perhaps some of the thinking here is based on old code and may well be resolved more easily in the newer stuff. -Bill Kearney From: "elijah wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > way of thinking. What if every feed was during polling checked for > language and compared to it's tag? You could automatically mark them > for repair. I suspect (though I am no language expert) that a quick > scan for things like the/le/sí could quickly give you an educated guess > of english/french/spanish. There are probably 8-10 most common > languages. automated language identification is *very* hard to do well. simple regex hunts might get you up to 80% or so, but that really isn't very satisfactory when compared to human-processing of all the feeds. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $4.98 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Q7_YsB/neXJAA/yQLSAA/IRislB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> If you're getting "too much mail" then send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this will tell it to stop sending you mail) To change your membership use THIS WEB PAGE: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/join (here you can set your mail to digest, no mail or LEAVE the list) To find more info about Syndicated XML newsfeeds visit http://www.syndic8.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
