tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post6741948168801486525..comments2024-03-28T17:47:19.992-05:00Comments on Computational Complexity: There Should be an AlgorithmLance Fortnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06752030912874378610noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-82455716661389865122015-01-26T14:53:55.501-06:002015-01-26T14:53:55.501-06:00One of the main areas for development, in my mind,...One of the main areas for development, in my mind, is the development of a "computer science friendly" dictionary. The dictionary model is stuck in the Gutenberg era. A dictionary should be like a computer program, with categories of words and phrases, pointers to definitions (in the C sense), and pattern matching. A definition of a word should not just be a sequence of words - it should be a parse tree with pointers to other entries in the dictionary.<br /><br />This probabilistic NLP approach that derives from 15th century technology needs to be updated. Start from scratch and build something elegant.<br /><br />Lance Q. Elevator<br />Москва процветает!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-22373497675206958422015-01-22T23:27:54.462-06:002015-01-22T23:27:54.462-06:00Might have her puzzle over how to treat the senten...Might have her puzzle over how to treat the sentence: "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana":<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_flies_like_an_arrow;_fruit_flies_like_a_bananaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-88902557092015606892015-01-22T15:20:50.033-06:002015-01-22T15:20:50.033-06:00Even better. Tell her to file a patent for the id...Even better. Tell her to file a patent for the idea, and then nobody will be able to use it for the next 20 years. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-73261351590597146212015-01-22T11:11:54.350-06:002015-01-22T11:11:54.350-06:00Already it's impossible to explain binary sear...Already it's impossible to explain binary search to modern kids, since they've never searched for a word in a paper dictionary, and now you want to make it impossible to explain table look-up...Paul Goldberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952445127830395305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-84022905161379898202015-01-22T11:06:11.453-06:002015-01-22T11:06:11.453-06:00Amazon indeed has a feature in the new Kindle Voya...Amazon indeed has a feature in the new Kindle Voyage. It is called Word Wise .. do check it out! It is not perfect but a great start. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-41557115550239415242015-01-22T08:35:25.779-06:002015-01-22T08:35:25.779-06:00"if technology hadn't made them obsolete...."if technology hadn't made them obsolete." <br /><br />Perhaps technology *should* have made them obsolete, but it has not. We still see meter readers here in NM taking a reading each month for our water supply. And gas and electric company also had them up until just a couple of years ago, although I have not seen one recently. Varshahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11526849015267871764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-64165321201630331542015-01-22T07:29:31.177-06:002015-01-22T07:29:31.177-06:00This may sound very naive and stupid, but I assume...This may sound very naive and stupid, but I assume in this case from Amazon's end the book comes with additional data, such as the genre, country and time of the story. If this is indeed the case, can't the Kindle dictionary leverage this to tweak already the definition (assuming, once more, each definition comes with similar annotations)?Clement C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12940652354129428242noreply@blogger.com