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Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Objects vs. Types and NL
> >
> > On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 22:00 -0500, Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
> >
> > [KSB] <...snip...>
> >
> > > I also have been interested in natural language processing. There is
> > > something about it that makes one think that it should be easy to
> > > create a parser etc, and from there make a step towards understanding.
> >
> > [KSB] This brings back memories of when I was a graduate student in
> > computer science with an interest in artificial intelligence, back in
> > mid 1970s.
> >
> > Consider:
> >
> > Time flies like an arrow.
> > Banana files like a peach.
> >
> > You can't parse it without considering semantics, including metaphors.
> > Natural language processing, outside of restricted domains, is hard. I
> > went on to smaller challenges.
> >
> > -- Bhaskar
>
> Time flies like an arrow
> Fruit flies like a banana
> Paint flies like an artist.
> Time flies like a stopwatch timekeeper.
Zip flies. Like, men, it's not polite to leave the barndoor open.
Tie flies like a fisherman.
Thai Air flies to Bangkok.
jlz
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
-- N Chomsky
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