Peter P. Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This seems to be a recurring topic - though not less interesting for
> that.
>
> Murray, I don't know if it would help you but sometime back with
> similar ideas in mind I built a humble perl script that indexed
> purple-numbered web pages, using a simple but effective technique
> (that if I recall correctly was suggested by blinc or Dorai) of
> grabbing all the significant words between stopwords, and then spat
> out an unmerged Topic Map. It probably wouldn't take much to convert
> it to perform the <meta> insertions as it goes. If you'd like the
> code I can dig it out. Combined with an NLP parser for word/phrase
> class indication, it might do interesting things. (In that other
> life, where we have time to do stuff...) (01)
Peter, (02)
Thanks for the offer, but there's a number of things keeping the
suggestion from being useful to me. First is simply that I'm way
overloaded right now just trying to get my Ph.D. project finished,
and second, that of the new languages I plan to learn, Python is
really at the top of the list. I've not programmed in perl for at
least ten years, and never was a fan of it. If at some point I'm
able to implement this idea within a wiki server, it'll probably
be by using a combination of Ceryle and the moin moin wiki engine,
which is written in Python. The engine for the integration would
certainly be Ceryle, since it has all the machinery I'd need and
I'd hate to rebuild that in Python. (03)
> I have this thought on my mind concerning WikiWords: Can Cyc read
> Wikipedia.org? Answer: yes, probably, because Wikipedia is only using
> the WikiWords for the content of the link, not the display text. (04)
Well, and with an appropriate filter, Cyc can read any web pages.
It reads the movie database, which has some horribly crufty markup... (05)
> (Your sig made me laugh, btw. Thanks. :) (06)
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