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[Bob Sneidar]

I had to read it 3 times to get it right! No computer is THAT advanced!

Bob


On Mar 13, 2014, at 07:31 , Peter Brigham <pmbrig at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Paul Dupuis <paul at researchware.com> wrote:
> 
>> Can someone probably construct some sequence of characters that could be
>> called a sentence that might get mis-parsed? Possibly - I am familiar
>> with the library RunRev is using only by reputation, so I can't say for
>> sure. However for most text you will work with where you want to return
>> "sentence 2 of paragraph 5 of fld X" you will get exactly what you expect.
>> 
> 
> How about this:
> 
> "In later years, P.G. Wodehouse always went by P.G. Wodehouse might have
> thought that Pelham Grenville sounded snooty."
> 
> No algorithm is going to manage this kind of thing, where the reader has to
> understand the meaning of the sentences to parse them correctly. The
> question is how seldom will mistakes occur.
> 
> -- Peter
> 
> Peter M. Brigham
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