Re: Shoebox!

> From: taliesin the storyteller
>
> * Danny Wier <dawier@...> [000720 09:31]:
> > --- The Gray Wizard <dbell@...> wrote:
> >
> > > Is anyone on the list using Shoebox from SIL for lexicon management.
> > > I started playing with it a few days ago and what a joy!  My approach
> > > was to import some amman iar sentences and have Shoebox attempt
> > > interlinear translation.  In the process, I would enter the required
> > > roots and affixes (both derivational and inflectional) into the
> > > lexicon, thereby "training" the parser. I was amazed at how quickly
> > > the parser became "smart" enough to "automagically"
> >
> > Automagically!  Another neologism!  That's fantabulous!
>
> Not a neologism in computer-circles...
> http://www.science.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/a/automagically.html
>
Indeed.  I've been hacking (in the old, pure and benevolent sense of that
word) computers for about 35 years and it seems that I have been using the
term "automagically" for nearly as long.  My earliest recollection was in a
speech I gave to a user group meeting back in the early '70s.

David

David E. Bell
The Gray Wizard
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