David Balmain wrote:

>On 11/29/05, James Edward Gray II <james / grayproductions.net> wrote:
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>>On Nov 29, 2005, at 1:12 AM, Leslie Viljoen wrote:
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>>>The real challenge will be the parser - in fact, that might be a
>>>good quiz too.
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>>I've been considering this for a quiz.  I'm currently in the process
>>of solving it myself, to prove it's not too much work.  My free time
>>is scarce currently though, so if you beat me to a solution mail it
>>to me, along with a count of how many hours it took to build...
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>>James Edward Gray II
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>Parsing English is what I wrote my thesis on at university. I wonder
>if a general purpose English tokenizing and parsing library would be
>of any use to anyone. I'm thinking of taking it up again.
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Take it up! You could use something like this in all sorts of games,
text-to-speech systems, perhaps even voice recognition. Even
if you don't take it up, some ideas and algorithms would be
greatly appreciated.

Make a topic on my wiki!
http://mobeus.homelinux.org/eclectica

BTW: My wiki has two Ruby script sections where I dump useful
"nuggets" (tiny bits of useful code) and longer scripts. I'd be grateful
to anyone who contributes.

Les