Re: solace

Karl Teeter (kvt@husc.harvard.edu)
Wed, 17 Apr 1996 09:35:06 -0400 (EDT)

Thanks a lot! Until I retired in 1989 I taught a course in lignusitc
theory and had to know all of this stuff. I don't any more, and I
welcome help in keeping up! Yours, kvt

On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Marco Antonio Da Rocha wrote:

> Karl Teeter wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear Marco Antonio: So aren't you going to tell the rest of us? Yours, kvt
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Marco Antonio Da Rocha wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks to all who have answered my query on the meaning of FSM. I had more
> > > trouble with the abbreviation than with the concept, although I should have
> > > been able to infer from the message.
> > >
> > > Marco Rocha
> > >
> >
>
> I DO apologise. I thought I was the only person who did not know it.
> A measure of consolation.
> Ignorance has been defeated though. FSM means finite state machine, the most
> simple computing device or automaton. A full description may be found in
> Gazdar & Mellish, Natural Language Processing in PROLOG/LISP/PoPLog.
>
> Marco Rocha
>