Did I ask for perfect parsing? Do humans do perfect parsing? I don't even think I asked for parsing at all. I asked for a twenty five year overdue update to text tools. Do you think allan kay would have stopped at paganation if he had been re-inventing computing today? It is tragically laughable how provincial we have become. "Computer Innovation" has digressed as a phrase into an oxymoron. The simple graphics primitives provided aren't exactly what they could be, but I have done more with them than I would have had I had to build a screen blitter on my own. So sad who we have become.
-----Original Message----- From: Randall Reetz <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 8:02 PM To: How to use Revolution <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Syllabic division of words What would it take to scare a bunch of computers jockeys? Not much. Innovation? You don't get on top of everest in one leap. And you don't wait around for miracles if you want to move up a hill. Nobody is asking for perfection or completion here. Just some baby steps. Phonemic and phrase chunking isn't exactly rocket science. But it is if you expect it to be pulled of at the scale of user level scripting. Hierarchical thesaurus semantic chains would be a fairly simple addition as well. Oh well. I have been well whipped for speaking out for what WILL matter. God forbid we go there first. Scared, controlling, and mean spirited. That is exactly what I have come to expect of geeks. Sad. -----Original Message----- From: J. Landman Gay <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 6:51 PM To: How to use Revolution <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Syllabic division of words Randall Reetz wrote: > How much better my > meaning abstractions would be if I had access to more info than which > strings sat between space characters. ... > > What would be as revolutionary today as hypercard was twenty some > years ago? What you're asking for is a whole field in itself, not a goal for a development environment. I know someone who has been working on computer AI for 10 or 15 years, trying to parse natural language into meaning, using xtalk as far back as HyperCard. This isn't a detour I want RR to take. But you could. Write it yourself. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
