All things are relative and some peoples' relatives are worse than others. Fruit flies like a banana, especially if the banana is overly ripe.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 1:42 AM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Objects vs. Types and NL > John Leo Z. wrote: > >> > 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. > > > Ti-me kan garu da-on, m8. > > The original quote was from Groucho Marx: > "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana" > > I couldn't find Bhaskar's variation on google, but it led me to this: > "Do fruit flies dream of electric bananas?" > http://grimpeur.tamu.edu/pipermail/animals/2004-February/000068.html > > Also from Groucho: > "Q: What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an agnostic, and a dyslexic? > A: Someone who stays up all night wondering if there is a Dog." > - Groucho Marx > > "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe > is that none of it has tried to contact us." > - Calvin and Hobbes > > AI was one of my major interests also back in the 70's and early 80's. I put it on hold to > develop VMACS. It feels like it will be time soon to revisit it. My focus will be on > parsing text in medical records to extract concepts and patterns in and between records > that could be useful for clinical research. I will be looking at UMLS and Cyc and Kevin's > mention of link grammar sounds interesting. > > --------------------------------------- > Jim Self > Systems Architect, Lead Developer > VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis > (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself) > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
