Nice! Your coding is disgustingly neat, though. Disgustingly.
Is that line-by-line critiquing I spy? If so, you might want to nip over to Critique Circle. They have a paragraph-by-paragraph critique feature that you might want to take a look at for ideas and stuff, though their method uses JavaScript.
P.S. – You never did extol to me the virtues of Ruby. :P
Heh, as a matter of fact, it is sentence-by-sentence critiquing, which no one else has been able to manage thus far (because having a computer figure out where sentences end and begin is difficult).
Critique Circle is crazy annoying to use, compared to what I have planned. You know how lovely critiquing with a pen on a manuscript is? It’ll be as close to that as I can replicate on a computer.
And yes, I should extol the virtues of Ruby. I’ll get on that after my hellish week of simultaneous assignments ends.
I eagerly await this sentence-by-sentence critiquing. :3
I suppose it’s too much to hope that the ability to doodle diagrams would be included. Ah, hardcopies – even in this day and age of technological advancement, you still can’t be beat. XP
As for the sentence bit, have you tried denoting it by (punctuation mark)(space/line or paragraph break)? There are only so many punctuation marks that end sentences in the English language, after all. :D
Periods on their own aren’t enough. The problem is you get all sorts of ambiguity with honorifics, abbreviations, etc.
Stuff like “She needs her car by 5 p.m. Saturday evening. At 5 p.m. I had to go to the bank. She has an appointment at 5 p.m. Saturday afternoon. By 5 p.m. Sunday I have to be at home.” will wreck attempts to naively use periods and capitalization to act as sentence markers.
Sentence tokenization is considered a pretty difficult natural language processing task. I’ve made some breakthroughs though… much lower error rate than most published algorithms. :-)
Kyllorac on 11 February 2010, 19:46 said:
Nice! Your coding is disgustingly neat, though. Disgustingly.
Is that line-by-line critiquing I spy? If so, you might want to nip over to Critique Circle. They have a paragraph-by-paragraph critique feature that you might want to take a look at for ideas and stuff, though their method uses JavaScript.
P.S. – You never did extol to me the virtues of Ruby. :P
SlyShy on 11 February 2010, 21:02 said:
Heh, as a matter of fact, it is sentence-by-sentence critiquing, which no one else has been able to manage thus far (because having a computer figure out where sentences end and begin is difficult).
Critique Circle is crazy annoying to use, compared to what I have planned. You know how lovely critiquing with a pen on a manuscript is? It’ll be as close to that as I can replicate on a computer.
And yes, I should extol the virtues of Ruby. I’ll get on that after my hellish week of simultaneous assignments ends.
Kyllorac on 11 February 2010, 22:36 said:
I eagerly await this sentence-by-sentence critiquing. :3
I suppose it’s too much to hope that the ability to doodle diagrams would be included. Ah, hardcopies – even in this day and age of technological advancement, you still can’t be beat. XP
As for the sentence bit, have you tried denoting it by (punctuation mark)(space/line or paragraph break)? There are only so many punctuation marks that end sentences in the English language, after all. :D
SlyShy on 11 February 2010, 22:50 said:
Periods on their own aren’t enough. The problem is you get all sorts of ambiguity with honorifics, abbreviations, etc.
Stuff like “She needs her car by 5 p.m. Saturday evening. At 5 p.m. I had to go to the bank. She has an appointment at 5 p.m. Saturday afternoon. By 5 p.m. Sunday I have to be at home.” will wreck attempts to naively use periods and capitalization to act as sentence markers.
Sentence tokenization is considered a pretty difficult natural language processing task. I’ve made some breakthroughs though… much lower error rate than most published algorithms. :-)
Kyllorac on 11 February 2010, 22:53 said:
Completely forgot about abbreviations. @_x
But progress is good! I expect great things from you Sly. Great things. >:3
RomanticVampireLover on 12 February 2010, 17:43 said:
Well done, Sly. :D I’m looking forward to seeing your finished product.
Steph the Sue on 14 February 2010, 07:53 said:
Sly, this is fantastic :)
sansafro187 on 14 February 2010, 23:43 said:
You’re kind of a genius, man.
Artimaeus on 17 February 2010, 21:26 said:
I can’t wait to see how this works.