On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 13:44, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > So don't say it this way that they are doing this great project > > which will save the humanity blah blah... You still get excited > > by those words? > > I am excited, since I saw some output from the people involved: A > commercial probabilistic English to Persian translation engine, a tagged > corpus of pronunciations for lots of standard Persian, an OCR that > worked wonderfully for handwritten disjoint Persian letters, and a > script that inserted all the "kasre-ye ezaafe"s automatically (which > worked not only on whole sentences, but even on things like book > titles). > > Let's just say this: Isn't a database of famous people and places' names > and their Persian translation not exciting if released as Open Source, > something that tells you Democritus is "zimeghraatis" and Casablanca is > "daar ol-beyzaa"? Specially if someone already has it?
These indeed look exciting, but in my laptop, not theirs. > I get excited when I see people who have done something that stays with > us. I get excited when they mention they'll be doing everything Open > Source without anybody pushing them. And it was not only me. Sure, if it really stays with *us*. "They'll be doing" is what I asked if you still get excited about. Man, how many yours you have been in this business? > > IRI is IRI, period. > > Does that make everybody living in IRI a fool?! No, but any project run by IRI a foolish dumb one with no results wasting oil money. You know I'm so disappointed about the National Persian Linux project. > > By the way, yes, it IS that hard, the cursor > > problem at least. > > I know. But it's not something unsolvable by the FarsiWeb team, at least > theoretically. You don't agree?! I'm afraid not. I'm afraid one of these days I theoretically prove it can't be solved. But of course that would be theoretically, not practically. (that bidi is not reversible simply means you can't get a 100% expected cursor position, huh?) > roozbeh BTW, guess enough of this thread. Find another interesting thing to continue this beautiful month. :-) Ok, Professor Yarshater, the author of the great Encyclopedia Iranica[1] is going to be around in two weeks. I may get the chance to conduct a short interview with him. So, ideas about what to ask, what to focus, is appreciated. [1] http://www.iranica.com/ --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
