On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> > x1 utters verbally/says/phonates/speaks x2.
>
> for each Lojban word.... So he is simply facing the small programming
> task of translating these definitions into sets of English sentences,
> i.e. in the above example
>
> > Now I would like to extract individual sentences from this:
> >
> > x1 utters verbally x2
> > x1 says x2
> > x1 phonates x2
> > x1 speaks x2
>
> This could be done using a fairly simple script but he is wondering if
> there's some elegant parsing framework that could be used to deal with
> the forward-slashes between phrases... I guess ...
>
Well, if it's really just that, then its not "fairly simple", its "almost
trivial". This kind of string mangling is something that perl excels at.
You can do it in about 7 lines of code. Here:
#! /usr/bin/env perl
while(<>) { # angle brackets mean "read from standard in"
($x1, $v, $x2) = split; # split on whitespace, into three parts
@verblist = split /\/, $v; #split the middle bit, based on slashes
foreach $verb (@verblist) { #loop over the list
print "$x1 $verb $x2";
}
}
Untested, might have bugs.
--linas
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