Syllabic division of words

[Randall Lee Reetz]

Here is a link to apple's developer info about the "Text Services"  
codec:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/text/Text-409.html

Apple offers a "text summary service" that will reduce a given hunk  
of text to any length specified.  I don't know, but I would be  
surprised if the hooks into this tech do not offer other meaningful  
functionality that could be used to produce semantically salient  
condensations of text that could then be folded into a more robust  
and friendly set of tools for the acquisition of meaning at some  
useful level.

Randall


On Aug 21, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Randall Lee Reetz wrote:

> Sorry, I have been spelling "phoneme" wrong.  Here is a link to the  
> apple tech to which I refereed:
>
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Mac/Sound/Sound-201.html
>
> It is part of the text-to-speech tool box.  Makes sense.  And it is  
> available to all.  I would be surprised if something similar wasn't  
> also available in Windows and Unix.  It works in reference to  
> language-specific libraries, and is thus portable and localizable.
>
> On the Mac, SuperCard used to provide a hook into this  
> functionality (maybe through an external).
>
> Randall
>
> On Aug 21, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Randall Reetz wrote:
>
>> I didn't mean to imply that it would be easy.  I am saying it is  
>> important. Much more important than the crap we get caught up in  
>> simply because the tools exist.  Apple has a core technology in  
>> its text services tools that breaks text into base phonems and is  
>> language agnostic.  Semantic processing will open up a whole new  
>> world to computer application.  There are reasonable steps that  
>> can be taken right now that are no more absurd than what hypercard  
>> was to programming when it was revolutionary twenty some years ago.
>>
>> randall
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
>> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 1:05 PM
>> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>> Subject: Re: Syllabic division of words
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> --
>>   Richard Gaskin
>>   Fourth World
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