Comments on: Frequency of grammatical disjuncts http://brainwave.opencog.org/2009/07/06/frequency-of-grammatical-disjuncts/ The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make. -I. J. Good, 1965 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:10:00 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: linasv http://brainwave.opencog.org/2009/07/06/frequency-of-grammatical-disjuncts/#comment-13 linasv Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:58:18 +0000 http://opencog.wordpress.com/?p=123#comment-13 Martin Reynaert wrote to say: ''<em>From what I have learned from the work of mainly Ramon Ferrer i Cancho ( http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~rferrericancho/publications_by_year.html ), I would say that adding syntactic patterns to the words turns the natural language into more formal language. For more formal language a power law exponent well above 1 is `natural'.</em>'' Martin Reynaert wrote to say: ”From what I have learned from the work of mainly Ramon Ferrer i Cancho ( http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~rferrericancho/publications_by_year.html ), I would say that adding syntactic patterns to the words turns the natural language into more formal language. For more formal language a power law exponent well above 1 is `natural’.”

]]> By: ftyers http://brainwave.opencog.org/2009/07/06/frequency-of-grammatical-disjuncts/#comment-11 ftyers Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:43:31 +0000 http://opencog.wordpress.com/?p=123#comment-11 Two comments really... the first is that perhaps the "resisting the use of formulaic sentences" comes from using more formal text as opposed to e.g. speech or chat type text. When I write for Wikipedia, I often find myself re-wording sentences. The second is, have you considered trying the same with the Persian Link grammar ? [1] 1. http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~jonsafari/#projects Two comments really… the first is that perhaps the “resisting the use of formulaic sentences” comes from using more formal text as opposed to e.g. speech or chat type text. When I write for Wikipedia, I often find myself re-wording sentences.

The second is, have you considered trying the same with the Persian Link grammar ? [1]

1. http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~jonsafari/#projects

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