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Re: Robert...EDS - questions/comments

• Posted by Michael Sabal <mikes at notations.com> Feb 13, 2001
• 517 views

I'm going to make a few assumptions about your dictionary format that may =
be way off.  If they are, then probably most of what I say will be =
useless; but here goes anyway.

I assume you have a dictionary that Tiggr can look in to determine the =
meaning of words she reads, and in which she can find appropriate words =
with which to respond.  In order to know the appropriateness of a word, I =
assume you have a class field as part of the dictionary entry.  For =
example, a homonym with both a casual class entry and a technical class =
entry, but different meanings, would have to be decided between based on =
the context of the discussion.

You must have a means for Tiggr to learn new vocabulary based on the =
context.  Why not allow Tiggr to learn typos in the same way she learns =
other vocabulary, but with a class that prevents her from using the typo =
in her own responses?

Also consider that about half the words in a sentence are grammatical.  =
That means that, based on the position in the sentence, grammatical typos =
need only be compared to grammatical words and not the other half-million =
nouns,verbs, adjectives, etc. in the dictionary.  If the word expected is =
a noun, compare the typo to only nouns, etc.  This is a large reason why I =
chose to go with a hex-based language for internal processing, even though =
the overhead of translating to that language would be a bit higher.

As for my statement about sorting during down-times, I was referring only =
to sorting, not to comparing.  The compare would obviously have to happen =
during the conversation.

Michael J. Sabal

>>> gertie at PELL.NET 02/12/01 04:41PM >>>
If one assumes every word in the sentence is a typo, then every word must =
be=20
compared to find a tree of possible correct words for the entire sentence. =
Anything=20
else is throwing away info.

>(NB: the sort routine could be run when Tiggr recognizes she's
> the only one in the room. =20

Sorta useless to reply to conversation only after everyone leaves, isn't =
it?

Kat