From: Costan <CMValma@...>
Date: 2008-07-07T22:26:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Does Ruby have any advantage over Python to create semantic 	applications?

On Jul 6, 7:52 am, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:

>
> Not necessarily: when we talk about "text processing" we usually refer
> to symbolic transformations on text files which are quite a different
> thing than what you seem to be after.  From what I read you really want
> to recognize semantic of speech.  This is nothing we regularly do when
> text processing.  Instead we typically search for text, extract certain
> portions of text based on position and regular expression match but not
> on semantic.

Thanks Robert, I understand that "text processing" here refers to the
text written in a code and doesn't have anything to do with my
purposes.

> without background in programming or even computer science you will have
> a hard time implementing this in *any* programming language.
>
> Kind regards

You're totally right, but I'm not going to program it. My shortly
rethought attempt to study computer science dates from 15 years ago
which doesn't help me at all now. Now I have some ideas I'd like to
implement and it seems it is more fun to program (specially with Ruby
and Python, Django and specially -so it seems- Ruby on Rails). My
background relating to this project is in cognition, semantics and
theory of science which is where my ideas come from, but I just want
to have some general knowledge that helps me connect with programmers
better.

I was also planning to make a very basic first prototype, not just to
understand the process but even to explain the idea better, as it is
hard to do it without it, even though there's some chance programmers
could need to start the program from scratch (no matter we (they) end
up translating the not-so-basic prototype to some kind of C...). But
time and experience, or perhaps more feedback, will say if this the
right path to take.

Best, :)
Costan