So this guy wants Natural Language Precessing. Not just for input but also for output. You have an underatanding that this is the holy grail of AI and the subject of quite probably terrabytes of PhD theses. You have only a basic underatanding of Perl (probably not the best/worst language in which to perform AI) and you find the material you have seen too complicated?

Tell the guy to wait for quantum computers to hit the desktop then post again :-)

What you can do is split into sentences (even that is non trivial i.e. split /\./, $text Mr. Smith). See Text::Sentence. Past that you have quite possibly the most non-trivial problem in CS/AI.

The only way you could generate a (still non) trivial solution of vague utility is to constrain the problem to a very limited subset of input text.

cheers

tachyon

In reply to Re: The (futile?) quest for an automatic paraphrase engine by tachyon
in thread The (futile?) quest for an automatic paraphrase engine by dimar

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