RE: Corpora: Ergo's Patent Publishes
Youd, Nick (YoudN@logica.com)
Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:46:19 -0000
David
Congratulations. Your refutation is as simple and eloquent as it is damning.
Having spent time in the past working in the area of parsers and theories of
syntax, I usually come to these claims with the thought: who needs syntax?
Put less bluntly, if a theory of grammar is to have any value at all in a
piece of computer software, its use needs to be argued from a design point
of view; it also has to pass evaluation tests which demonstrate its fitness
for this design purpose. Paradoxically it seems that Bralich may be making
the same point, if inadvertently. Though in the case of his parser, I don't
see the purpose.
Regards
Nick
PS: I enjoyed the poem
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