On 8/16/07, Yen-Ju Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It sounds to me like QuickSilver or Bulter on Mac. > The concept is that after a keybord short-cut, > a window shows up and users can type. > Then depending on what they type, actions get fired. > While I like this idea, I think the core of this application is > an engine which it can process natural laugnage, > ex. it can parse a string into a phone number or address, > or an application name. > I wonder whether it can be easily done ?
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). -- Nicolas Roard "La perfection, ce n'est pas quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, c'est quand il n'y a plus rien à enlever." -- Antoine de St-Exupéry _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
