John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
> Raymond A. Brown scripsit:
>=20
> > The young Z would surely have noticed agglutinating tendencies in the=
Latin
> > verbal systems, e.g. canta-ba-m, canta-ba-s, canta-ba-t. (Indeed, se=
veral
> > years back I wrote a Prolog program that can successfully parse pract=
ically
> > all Latin verbs correctly one it knows the verb's 'principlal parts';=
the
> > program makes full use of such tendencies). It would certainly have
> > occurred to him to entend and regularize this principle.
>=20
> If you can lay your hands on this program, I would love to put it on
> a Web site. Vivat Prolog!
I'm being taught some Prolong in my Artificial Intelligence class. [1]
My teacher says the language works the way the human brain thinks,
but nobody really knows how the brain works, right? and I'm almost
sure I don't think like *that* (I mean, I don't have a heap like
those Fith aliens [who was the author?]).
Anyway I'd love to see the program too (or a similar one).
I actually have to do some work on natlang processing...
and Drasel=E9q could use some of that too (the conjugation rules
are really messy).
[1] This raises a linguistic question: how do you call an action
that goes from A to B but doesn't produce the intended results
on B? I think it could be a great thing for a conlang, or to
concisely express my thoughts about my AI class. :-)
--Pablo Flores