[alicebot-general] Comma's in <that>

[Noel Bush]

And I think that a linguist would tell you that it has consumed 
uncountable person-decades of many people's time.  ;-)

R. Vince wrote:
> Yes! There are POS taggers, but, it is the resolution of ambiguity via 
> context after the initial tagging, to correctly tag, that is the challenge, 
> and has consumed uncountable hours of my time! -Ralph Vince
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Noel Bush" <noel at aitools.org>
> To: "Alicebot and AIML General Discussion" 
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [alicebot-general] Comma's in <that>
> 
> 
>> Now if it were only possible to accurately identify (or even define, in
>> some cases) "parts of speech"..... :-)
>>
>> R. Vince wrote:
>>> Though not part of the AIML spec (and I am mentioneing this solely for 
>>> the
>>> sake of some future coder faced with this problem, and how I resolved 
>>> it), I
>>> tag the tokens with Part of Speech Tags as a pre-stage as part of the
>>> Normalizing process, before Normalizing. If the POS's on either side of 
>>> the
>>> comma are the same (e.g. Jack/NP ,/CC Jill/NP) I convert the comma into 
>>> the
>>> coordingating conjunction 'and' (thus producing Jack/NP and/CC Jill/NP).
>>>
>>> On the other hand, if the POS's on either side of the comma are NOT the
>>> same, I remove the comma (e.g. "In/CD the/DT end/NN ,/CC no/DT one/NN
>>> cares/VBZ" thus becomes ("in/CD the/DT end/NN no/DT one/NN cares/VBZ").
>>>
>>> Essentially, if you wanted, a semicolon could be treated the same way. 
>>> But
>>> again, this is off-spec. I simply have incorporated it because I am 
>>> working
>>> on parsing text via AIML as a front end to a larger system.
>>>
>>> -Ralph Vince
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "mehri" <foreverlinux at yahoo.com>
>>> To: <alicebot-general at list.alicebot.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 11:20 PM
>>> Subject: [alicebot-general] Comma's in <that>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I ran into a particular issue.
>>>>
>>>> Some AIML files are written with comma's in <that> and
>>>> some are not.
>>>>
>>>> For example,
>>>>
>>>> <that>PRESS 1 TO KNOW WHAT THE MOUSE EATS, AND TO
>>>> DISCOVER ITS COLOUR</that>
>>>>
>>>> and some are:
>>>>
>>>> <that>PRESS 1 TO KNOW WHAT THE MOUSE EATS AND TO
>>>> DISCOVER ITS COLOUR</that>
>>>>
>>>> I do believe that <that>'s shouldn't contain comma's
>>>> or other punctuation.
>>>>
>>>> Is that true?
>>>>
>>>> I didn't see anywhere in the spec pointing to this
>>>> specifically, unless I missed something again in the
>>>> specification :-P
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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