Syllabic division of words

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Fri Aug 21 23:18:29 EDT 2009


Good ideas. We're a bunch of working stiffs here; I'm sure we can do it for
the right hourly. You have the pick of the best of us here on this list.If
you've got the funding, I"m ready to go. Not afraid at all. We'll need a
little while.

Bill Atkinson was well funded and supported and was fortunate to work in a
think tank, and with a company that gave him a lot of rope.

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Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://barncard.com


2009/8/21 Randall Reetz <randall at randallreetz.com>

> 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 <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 6:51 PM
> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> 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         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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