On Friday, May 17, 2002, at 04:07 AM, Sean M. Burke wrote:
> At 11:13 2002-05-16 -0500, c. church wrote: >> [...]there are some good rules for decomposing text, and >> transforming it into rules in Speech and Language Processing >> by Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin.[...] > > That reminds me to ask: > Am I the only one here who found that book rather disappointing? Count me in - that book seemed to be aimed at someone else, but I'm not sure who. I took a disappointing course based mostly on that book. If I see another person try to explain the Earley algorithm to me, I'll freak. It just happened again last week! -Ken