Timeline for Dissecting an English sentence using a pattern
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| Sep 19, 2011 at 9:53 | vote | accept | Johan | ||
| Sep 15, 2011 at 15:23 | comment | added | Jordan Bentley | @Johan then have fun, but remember being able to use third party libraries effectively is also an important skill to learn. Not saying you shouldn't have fun doing this your way, just something to keep in mind. | |
| Sep 15, 2011 at 6:52 | comment | added | Johan | Just for fun, got some good ideas of what I could do with a script that can understand (basic) english. | |
| Sep 14, 2011 at 19:46 | comment | added | Jordan Bentley | Is this something for work or are you just doing this for fun? | |
| Sep 14, 2011 at 19:38 | comment | added | Johan | For now, I'm just exploring possibilities, having made alot that was 'already out there' has made me a better programmer, so I'm not gonna give up that philosophy, then again, once I understand what makes up a good english-sentence parser, what makes the wheel 'round' there is nothing against using a wheel thats much rounder then mine. But at least then I know why it's round. (sorry if I just stretched the metaphore too far :P ) | |
| Sep 14, 2011 at 17:31 | comment | added | Jordan Bentley | @Johan I should also note that in college I took an entire class on formal languages/context free grammars/regular expressions/etc and it barely scratched the surface of this problem. Unless you have an original contribution to the field, take a page from Newton and stand on the shoulders of giants :) | |
| Sep 14, 2011 at 17:28 | comment | added | Jordan Bentley | @Johan I disagree, having invented the wheel does not give you any special knowledge of its roundness. The same holds true for more complicated problems, such as parsing English. This is a very common and dangerous fallacy in software development. Avoid the "it wasn't built here" mentality. | |
| Sep 14, 2011 at 16:56 | comment | added | Johan | Thanks, this should help me quite alot! However, if you don't reinvent the wheel, you can not be sure that it is round ;) | |
| Sep 14, 2011 at 16:19 | history | edited | Alenanno | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 14, 2011 at 16:03 | history | edited | Jordan Bentley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 14, 2011 at 15:01 | history | answered | Jordan Bentley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |