Information science and thermodynamics intersect in computation but a lack of tools makes this the old west of discovery. Too many rattlesnake and gun singers to concentrate on the work in front of us. What kind of tools would allow rev to be a premier semantic construction and experimentation exploration sandbox? Have you tried to program (think) in lisp? No thank you fred. Xtalk is so human. But we need some robust extensions for semantics.
-----Original Message----- From: Richmond Mathewson <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:09 AM To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution@lists.runrev.com> Subject: Re: Syllabic division of words capellan wrote: > Randall Reetz wrote: > >> I should clarify. Stochastic (counting and statistical) methods of >> meaning >> acquisition are employed often to avoid structural grammatical parsing. >> Some adherents go further and posit that brains don't use grammar anyway, >> why should computers? >> >> > > Actually, i believe that language came first and grammatical rules were > collected later to explain and formalize the language conventions. > > Only languages of recent creation have this relation inverted. > Of course. What is rather funny is how, in the 19th century, philologists tried to apply Graeco-Latin grammar to non-Indo-European languages (leaving us with some sub-Saharan Africab languages being described as having 13 genders - which, quite obviously they don't ; they have 13 categories) leaving us with the lasting impression that "one size fits all", stopping people being aware of how large the differences between some languages are. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
