On 5/19/2011 8:44, Invisible wrote:
> surprised this can work at all.

Well, back when I was looking at it, it was far from a solved problem, but 
there were dozens of really smart people working on it with entire phone 
books worth of examples, so yeah.

Even stuff like "St. Peter St." or "Dr. Martin Luther King Dr." were 
interesting.  Strings of digits would get read out differently depending if 
they were a postal code or a phone number or a street address or a year.

The input side was equally wonky, but I don't remember the details there.

> So it's merely trying to guess whether the correlation looks plausible,
> rather than a definitive test?

I don't know. If I had to do it without a lot of research, that's how I'd do it.

> Well, I might say "March twenty eighth" or "the twenty eighth of March" or
> "the twenty eighth day in March" or several more wordy variations than that...

All of which are pretty easy to put in a list.  Try it.  See how long your 
list is.

> Heh. And I thought it was because China is communist...

I found *very* few people in China speak English. India has enough different 
languages that even in India people tend to speak English a lot.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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