Re: GNU Prolog FAQ

[Christian]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 00:08:50 -0500 (EST)
Vic Bancroft <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Daniel Diaz wrote:
> 
> > Some other suggestions ???
> 
> Perhaps some automated techniques can be used to extract some FAQ . . .
> it might be possible to do some feature extraction and clustering.  Yet,
> after looking at users-prolog.mbox, any automated FAQ generation will
> first require stripping away some parts of the multi-part messages and
> many of the mail headers.  
> 
> Of course, it is more sci-fi than AI, but what if a gprolog-FAQ agent
> could actually identify a frequently asked question and could generate 
> an appropriate automated reply.
> 
Do u provide the code? (more seriously, ML should be for human interaction
not a faq-bot-system IMO)

> > From a practical point of view, I think it would be a good thing to
> > maintain this FAQ under the CVS of GNU-Prolog at sourceforge (either
> > under the module 'documentation' or inside a new module).
> 
> Here here, never underestimate the power of plain text!  It is so "diff"
> friendly as well.  

Latex is plain text. If someone is not familar with latex he can send
unformated text contribitions to me (or this mailinglist).

> 
> > This would allow other person to help Christina to work on the FAQ.
> 
> I will be glad to help, particularly in areas where there is some
> difference between the ISO definitions and some pre-existing practices. 

> I also have access to a vintage quintus, recent mercury under solaris
> current sicstus under a variety of platforms and a disposition to use
> c/c++/jni call interfaces.

Your are welcome!



cu Christian