De-Inflection Software?
c stirling bartholomew
cc.constantine at worldnet.att.net
Mon Sep 23 12:53:59 EDT 2002
on 9/23/02 8:30 AM, Dr. Dale M. Wheeler wrote:
> A bit of history...the CCAT texts were originally parsed by programs
> written by Dick Whitaker, et.al., who were experts in the languages and
> programming over 25 years ago, and I'm still fixing the mistakes made by
> the parser (and the grad students and others even less qualified who tried
> to fix the problems, anomalies, etc.). If those guys couldn't solve all of
> the problems with programming, I would have serious doubts that anyone else
> can.
Dale is right. This is not a project for hobbyists. I did some theoretical
work in automated parsing in the late 80's and was very impressed with the
problems involved. Not trivial at all.
I started using the CCATT texts in '90 (paid for them!! from P.B. Payne
Inc.) and as Dale has pointed out they were just full of errors. By
comparison the LXX (revised ed.) that comes with Accordance is pretty clean,
with only an occasional problem.
cheers,
Clay
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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
Three Tree Point
P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062
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