Re: Corpora: NLP AND THE BEST THEORY OF SYNTAX

Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. (bralich@hawaii.edu)
Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:53:57 -1000

At 02:29 AM 2/18/98 -1000, Oliver Mason wrote:
>Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. writes:
>According to this measurement, junk and bulk email must be widely accepted,
>as usually nobody bothers to reply. Unless one wants to suggest that the
>recipients of those mails are neither intelligent nor informed...
>

I think your point has some merit as well, but that does not totally
discount mine. The standards I propose (look closely) are things
that any theory should be able to handle and the fact that they cannot
(as demonstrated by a parser) is supicious.

>PS: as an intelligent (I think) and informed (I hope) individual I assume that
>everybody knows having your .sig appended five times is slightly redundant.
>(Sorry, couldn't resist)

Sorry for that. I send emails back and forth to myself here in the office
to check the formatting as it passes through different mail systems. I
obviously have been stopping at the first signature thinking I was done
and forgetting that each check adds a signature.
Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D.
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