Author Archives: Rob

After a l-o-n-g break away from this project, it seems like there may be some new activity forthcoming. I recently acquired a Raspberry Pi, and I’ve been looking for a “project” for the little beastie. Perhaps this is the right … Continue reading →

What would prompt new activity on a dead blog…? Well, I listened to a Python411 podcast recently (something I highly recommend, by the way) and learned about a  project called Open Allure. It’s focused on building systems for teaching, but … Continue reading →

I’ve spent the last few weeks building and deleting little snippets of code in the general vicinity of language parsing. Mostly it has been an exercise of exploring some of the things that have been learned by the serious folks … Continue reading →

I’ve got such a long way to go. These guys are really good! Their stuff actually does what I’m struggling mightily to conceive might be possible. Why isn’t this stuff already embedded in the products we use? These guys are … Continue reading →

It has occurred to me that I have drifted from building an intelligent machine to building a working language parser. I suppose this is a necessary first step, but I must not lose sight of the real goal. There are … Continue reading →

I’m slowly making progress and have a word-finder that looks up a word and gets its hypernyms from WordNet, a parser that takes a sentence and gets all the parts of speech for the words, and a concept structure for … Continue reading →