Syllabic division of words

[Richard Gaskin]

Randall Reetz wrote:

 > These functions can be written upon a meta-grammatical base
 > that will work across languages.  Rev already does this in
 > limited ways.  I find these limits absurd and backwards.
 > Provencial even.  It is long past time to ask the big
 > questions of computing as a field.  We follow as sheep,
 > even when we are in charge of computing's future.

Perhaps you could enlighten RunRev and the rest of us "sheep" by 
providing scripted versions of these functions you'd like to see in the 
engine?

 From your description it doesn't sound like it would take much time.


 > -----Original Message-----
 > On 21 Aug 2009, at 19:16, Randall Reetz wrote:
 >
 >> In addition to syllables, the system should be able to identify the
 >> following textual chunks:
 >> Characters
 >> Phonems
 >> Words
 >> Parts of speech (phrases)
 >> subject/object
 >> Semantic roots
 >> Sentences
 >> Paragraphs
 >> Sections
 >> Volumes
 >> Sets
 >> Lists
 >> Multidimentional arrays and nested tables
 >> Unlimited nested and overlapping hyperlinks and transclussions
 >> Tempo, pausing, pitch, volume, and percussive contrast
 >> Ontological association network mapping between any chunk or chunk
 >> type
 >>
 >> A simple, intuitive and robust interface and functional library to
 >> address and effect these objects at every hierarchy of the
 >> grammatical stack.


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