linguistics algorithms

Posted by Phil Henshaw-2 on Apr 22, 2007; 4:27am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Can-you-guess-the-source-tp523696p523763.html

you might be interested in: "A visualization testbed for analyzing the
performance of computational linguistics algorithms"
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs/journal/v6/n1/pdf/9500141a.pdf


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: friam-bounces at redfish.com
> [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 8:45 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Can you guess the source.
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> Phil Henshaw wrote:
> > My guess is that the reason you
> > can come up with exceptions for any abstract category assignment is
> > that you're interested in how nature is both highly orderly and
> > indefinable.
> >  
> Design, prescriptive language, and abstract categories are for those
> that aren't doing new things.  Evolution, or search, is for
> dealing with
> new things.  I see no problem with having dozens of evolved
> languages to
> describe different sorts of things, but perhaps
> retrospectively some of
> them are really the same and worth abstracting and compressing.
>
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