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Bill, help me name this parser. What kind of parser is it? An English parser. ... :) You know, it's a brilliant name. It's a person's name, like Siri or Co
by daveloyall 10y ago
Bill, help me name this parser.
What kind of parser is it?
An English parser.
... :)
You know, it's a brilliant name. It's a person's name, like Siri or Cortana. But if they'd named it Jane or John, the mass media would have a fit. So they side-stepped that by making it sound computer-y, while remaining a proper name. Brilliant.
- viraptor 10y agoMost likely it's a joke on the refused Boaty McBoatface vote http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-britain-boaty-mcboatface-polar-vessel-20160506-snap-story.html http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-britain-boaty-mcboatface...
- shawn-butler 10y agoI used to have a woman in my life, pumpkin latte sipping, wanna-be graphic designer and that is how she referred to everything xx-y mc-xx-yface seemingly in an attempt to remain a teenager well into her third decade. I am so glad to be rid of her vapid nonsense. It is a silly name and makes me think it is not a serious effort. But names can be deceiving.
- bleachedsleet 10y agoYou mean like a primary color scheme that looks like a child's playground? Seriously though, this is just a joke on an Internet meme. Quit being a buzzkill.
- akaij 10y agoThey're not wearing suits to work either, so not really a serious company anyway.
- ganeshkrishnan 10y agoIt's a joke on the boat naming saga
- pg_is_a_butt 10y agoduh... the point is that the joke make sense, lady
- taneq 10y agoOh, I hadn't picked that up, that's genius! It's not just a parser of English. It's an English parser (with the sense of humour appropriate thereto).
- Bombthecat 10y agoWhy is everything English only? :( there are other languages too. #otherlanguagesmatters
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- TeMPOraL 10y agoBecause we didn't win the II World War... :). (INB4 yes, that's the reference to an old joke about Lufthansa pilot in Frankfurt complaining he's forced to speak in English to the control tower) Honestly though, English is a quite good starting language due to its simplicity, but I do hope more attention will be expended on making the technology like this trainable on other languages as well.
- tuukkah 10y agoSimplicity!?
- daveloyall 10y agoMaybe SyntaxNet could be trained to parse other languages.
- executesorder66 10y ago> But if they'd named it Jane or John, the mass media would have a fit. Why would they have a fit if Google named it Jane or John?
- daveloyall 10y agoOMG... According to the section titled "Why is Parsing So Hard For Computers to Get Right?" in the blog post, determining the difference between "An English parser" and "An English parser" .. is Parsey's great strength. Five stars, would pun again.