Dear Liz, Tim and list, tjhis is a quick reply before I head off to my wediding this afternoon then afterwards to a month travelling. Tim has very ably expressed the situation we are in. The current system is a protoptype and the inputs of Liz will be invaluable for us to understnad what we do well adn poorly and need to improve. Over this year we will work on improving the system. Talk again in a month jon
Quoting Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:29, Tim Churches wrote: > >> Yes, there is clearly a lot more work needed on the coding routines, > but > >> remember that this was something put together by undergraduate > students > >> in just a week or so, and given that, I think it shows a lot of > promise. > >> I suspect that what Jon and his students learn from the text > submitted > >> will be invaluable for scoping out the extent and difficulty of > further > >> development. I think this is an exciting project, and I'd much rather > >> see time (and perhaps some modest funding) being invested in things > like > >> this than for us to collectively put our brains in neutral and > instead > >> just get out the cheque book (Standards Australia will no doubt > insist > >> that should be check book) and buy (very expensive) software from > >> companies such as http://www.healthlanguage.com > > > > that's why, although a late starter I have started putting in entries > and > > subsequent comments > > Yes, sorry, my argument was intended to be rhetorical, not directed > specifically at you, Liz. I know that you don't suffer from the national > tendency to technological cargo cultism [1]. > > Tim C > > [1] Credit for the phrase "technological cargo cult" is due to the > Department of Redundancy Dept. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > -- Jon Patrick Chair of Language Technology School of Information Technologies University of Sydney Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
