Progress Update
Just so people know, progress on WaylaidWriter is well under way. See here.
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By Kyllorac
on Feb 11, 06:46 PM
Nice! Your coding is disgustingly neat, though. Disgustingly.
Is that line-by-line critiquing I spy? If so, you might want to nip over to Critique Circle. They have a paragraph-by-paragraph critique feature that you might want to take a look at for ideas and stuff, though their method uses JavaScript.
P.S. – You never did extol to me the virtues of Ruby. :P
By SlyShy
on Feb 11, 08:02 PM
Heh, as a matter of fact, it is sentence-by-sentence critiquing, which no one else has been able to manage thus far (because having a computer figure out where sentences end and begin is difficult).
Critique Circle is crazy annoying to use, compared to what I have planned. You know how lovely critiquing with a pen on a manuscript is? It’ll be as close to that as I can replicate on a computer.
And yes, I should extol the virtues of Ruby. I’ll get on that after my hellish week of simultaneous assignments ends.
By Kyllorac
on Feb 11, 09:36 PM
I eagerly await this sentence-by-sentence critiquing. :3
I suppose it’s too much to hope that the ability to doodle diagrams would be included. Ah, hardcopies – even in this day and age of technological advancement, you still can’t be beat. XP
As for the sentence bit, have you tried denoting it by (punctuation mark)(space/line or paragraph break)? There are only so many punctuation marks that end sentences in the English language, after all. :D
By SlyShy
on Feb 11, 09:50 PM
Periods on their own aren’t enough. The problem is you get all sorts of ambiguity with honorifics, abbreviations, etc.
Stuff like “She needs her car by 5 p.m. Saturday evening. At 5 p.m. I had to go to the bank. She has an appointment at 5 p.m. Saturday afternoon. By 5 p.m. Sunday I have to be at home.” will wreck attempts to naively use periods and capitalization to act as sentence markers.
Sentence tokenization is considered a pretty difficult natural language processing task. I’ve made some breakthroughs though… much lower error rate than most published algorithms. :-)
By Kyllorac
on Feb 11, 09:53 PM
Completely forgot about abbreviations. @_x
But progress is good! I expect great things from you Sly. Great things. >:3
By RomanticVampireLover
on Feb 12, 04:43 PM
Well done, Sly. :D I’m looking forward to seeing your finished product.
By Steph the Sue
on Feb 14, 06:53 AM
Sly, this is fantastic :)
By sansafro187
on Feb 14, 10:43 PM
You’re kind of a genius, man.
By Artimaeus
on Feb 17, 08:26 PM
I can’t wait to see how this works.