Syllabic division of words

[Randall Reetz]

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 <randall at randallreetz.com>
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 8:02 PM
To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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 <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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