Re: Comma's in <that>

> Absolutely, but, the clarification (ambiguity reduction) seems to be at
> about the square root of the effort, which is fortunate. That is, if I do 4
> units of work, I reduve 2 units of ambiguity. If 16 units of work,. w units
> of ambiguity. In other words, since I know we'll never get 100% absence of
> ambiguity (in fact, human beings themselves dont get this), if we can get a
> good chunk of ambiguity resolved, it's worhtwhile I find.
>
> But you;re right, it's monstrous to do even that! -Ralph
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Noel Bush" <noel@...>
> To: "Alicebot and AIML General Discussion"
> <alicebot-general@...>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [alicebot-general] Comma's in <that>
>
>
>> And I think that a linguist would tell you that it has consumed
>> uncountable person-decades of many people's time.  ;-)
>>
>> R. Vince wrote:
>>> Yes! There are POS taggers, but, it is the resolution of ambiguity via
>>> context after the initial tagging, to correctly tag, that is the
>>> challenge,
>>> and has consumed uncountable hours of my time! -Ralph Vince
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Noel Bush" <noel@...>
>>> To: "Alicebot and AIML General Discussion"
>>> <alicebot-general@...>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:19 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [alicebot-general] Comma's in <that>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Now if it were only possible to accurately identify (or even define, in
>>>> some cases) "parts of speech"..... :-)
>>>>
>>>> R. Vince wrote:
>>>>> Though not part of the AIML spec (and I am mentioneing this solely for
>>>>> the
>>>>> sake of some future coder faced with this problem, and how I resolved
>>>>> it), I
>>>>> tag the tokens with Part of Speech Tags as a pre-stage as part of the
>>>>> Normalizing process, before Normalizing. If the POS's on either side of
>>>>> the
>>>>> comma are the same (e.g. Jack/NP ,/CC Jill/NP) I convert the comma into
>>>>> the
>>>>> coordingating conjunction 'and' (thus producing Jack/NP and/CC
>>>>> Jill/NP).
>>>>>
>>>>> On the other hand, if the POS's on either side of the comma are NOT the
>>>>> same, I remove the comma (e.g. "In/CD the/DT end/NN ,/CC no/DT one/NN
>>>>> cares/VBZ" thus becomes ("in/CD the/DT end/NN no/DT one/NN cares/VBZ").
>>>>>
>>>>> Essentially, if you wanted, a semicolon could be treated the same way.
>>>>> But
>>>>> again, this is off-spec. I simply have incorporated it because I am
>>>>> working
>>>>> on parsing text via AIML as a front end to a larger system.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Ralph Vince
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "mehri" <foreverlinux@...>
>>>>> To: <alicebot-general@...>
>>>>> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 11:20 PM
>>>>> Subject: [alicebot-general] Comma's in <that>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I ran into a particular issue.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some AIML files are written with comma's in <that> and
>>>>>> some are not.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For example,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <that>PRESS 1 TO KNOW WHAT THE MOUSE EATS, AND TO
>>>>>> DISCOVER ITS COLOUR</that>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and some are:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <that>PRESS 1 TO KNOW WHAT THE MOUSE EATS AND TO
>>>>>> DISCOVER ITS COLOUR</that>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I do believe that <that>'s shouldn't contain comma's
>>>>>> or other punctuation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is that true?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I didn't see anywhere in the spec pointing to this
>>>>>> specifically, unless I missed something again in the
>>>>>> specification :-P
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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