Hi I'm working my way through some books on the likes of BNF, lex, yacc and so on, and I'm wondering if anyone's got any pointers to the way human language ...
Wesley Parish
wes.parish@...
Nov 1, 2008 11:22 am
155903
... Google "Natural Language Processing". There are Context Free Grammar (CFG) parsers, Ordered CFG parsers (OCFG), link grammars, top down, bottom up, and...
Gary Shannon
fiziwig@...
Nov 1, 2008 2:48 pm
155904
Sorry to bring this up again, but I tried the html file trick and it didn't change anything. Is there some sort of "Asian text" tag I'm missing. Also, does...
Ollock Ackeop
ollock@...
Nov 1, 2008 3:54 pm
155905
On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 00:17:08 +1300, Wesley Parish ... I recently bumped into (probably via Language Log) a Python natural language processing toolkit which had...
Alex Fink
000024@...
Nov 1, 2008 4:00 pm
155906
Whoops! Sorry - I know exactly how this came about, but you won't want to hear the sorry tale. Of course you're right. Mea Culpa... and I have family in...
Michael Poxon
mike@...
Nov 1, 2008 4:52 pm
155907
iTunes supports all languages natively. It should be something to do with the encoding used to enter the information in the first place. Half my collection is...
Eugene Oh
un.doing@...
Nov 1, 2008 9:37 pm
155908
... I have noticed ITunes supports Unicode, but it doesn't like ID3 tags in other encodings. Nothing I have though is in any Asian text, but Cyrillic and...
deinx nxtxr
deinx.nxtxr@...
Nov 1, 2008 10:53 pm
155909
... Technically a hermaphrodite ... ;) ... -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ... Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things...
Wesley Parish
wes.parish@...
Nov 2, 2008 8:58 am
155910
... Thanks -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ... Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to...
Wesley Parish
wes.parish@...
Nov 2, 2008 8:59 am
155911
... Hermaphrodite is an outdated term, rarely used by the medical community anymore. The correct term would be intersexed person. +Ina...
Ina van der Vegt
gijsstrider@...
Nov 2, 2008 9:13 am
155912
... 'Hermaphrodite' may be an outdated term, but why choose 'INTERsex'? The prefix 'inter-' suggests, to me, location, either figurative or literal. It seems...
caeruleancentaur
caeruleancentaur@...
Nov 2, 2008 12:01 pm
155913
Benct Philip Jonsson saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you should see it. ** E-mail error ends up on road sign ** An automated e-mail response...
Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Nov 2, 2008 3:38 pm
155914
Coptic has both an indefinite and definite article: Indefinite: wa- Indefinite plural: hen- Definite masculine: p(e)- Definite feminine: t(e)- Definite plural:...
Elliott Lash
erelion12@...
Nov 2, 2008 4:16 pm
155915
I'm just trying to figure out how to fix it. The last time I posted on this, someone fixed the encoding by putting it into an HTML document and opening that...
Ollock Ackeop
ollock@...
Nov 2, 2008 6:26 pm
155916
I'm not sure if there's a quick fix, but why not try asking the person to send you the Chinese text? You can then copy it into iTunes. Eugene...
Eugene Oh
un.doing@...
Nov 2, 2008 6:46 pm
155917
... Androgyne refers to a gender orientation (One of the several forms of transgenderism), while Intersex refers to a physical condition. They are not mutually...
Ina van der Vegt
gijsstrider@...
Nov 2, 2008 8:48 pm
155918
Right. Intersex refers to sex (it's right there in the word!) while androgyne refers to gender. In the social construct sense, not the linguistic one. :) ... ...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Nov 2, 2008 11:44 pm
155919
I'd like to add to the etymology for androgyne. Andro is the genitive form of aner the Greek word for man and gyne is the Greek word for woman. ... From:...
Scotto Hlad
scott.hlad@...
Nov 3, 2008 6:33 am
155920
Well, on hair-splitting matters: andros is the genitive of ane:r, but it's not the genitive form that forms ; ) the word, for it lacks the -s-... so it's the...
Edgard Bikelis
bikelis@...
Nov 3, 2008 7:44 am
155921
... Exactly - you beat me to it :) ... Possibly - it's what 'Josephos Peanou' called the "compositional base"; see: ...
R A Brown
ray@...
Nov 3, 2008 8:55 am
155922
Quoting R A Brown <ray@...>: [snip] ... Well, there is a very rare medical condition known as "true hermaphroditism" where an individual has...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Nov 3, 2008 9:51 am
155923
... Of course not -- who would want to live in Nosex ? ;-) --Ph. D....
Ph.D.
phil@...
Nov 3, 2008 12:28 pm
155924
A linguistic analogy occurs to me - biological sex is to social gender as etymology is to meaning. Whatcha think? Other than "this is way off topic" and...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Nov 3, 2008 1:30 pm
155925
... Possibly a nonce-form, but in the past I've heard "gynandron" [dZIn'&ndr\on] as a term for a person who has both sexual characteristics....
ROGER MILLS
rfmilly@...
Nov 3, 2008 4:03 pm
155926
Sounds like a mixed drink. "Gin and Ron"? Seems that when word-initial the morpheme gyn(e) is usually [gajn] in English words... ... -- Sent from Gmail for...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Nov 3, 2008 5:07 pm
155927
... hermaphroditism" ... one gonad of ... Sometimes ... have two ... cases of that. Not like snails then, where any pair can - and do - fertilizes each other's...
R A Brown
ray@...
Nov 3, 2008 5:27 pm
155928
I wanted to take this opportunity to be the first (?) on the list this year to wish everyone on the list a happy Guy Fawkes day this coming Wednesday....
Eldin Raigmore
eldin_raigmore@...
Nov 3, 2008 5:57 pm
155929
... Remember, remember the fifth of November Gunpowder, treason, and plot I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot...
Ina van der Vegt
gijsstrider@...
Nov 3, 2008 7:40 pm
155930
We're a little more focused on Tuesday than on Wednesday over here in the US just at the moment. :) ... -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>...
Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Nov 3, 2008 8:11 pm
155931
Why, is something happening there on Tuesday? ;) Actually, the media focus is no different right-of-pond. ... From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> ...
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