Re: GNU Prolog FAQ

[Vic Bancroft]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Daniel Diaz wrote:

> Some other suggestions ???

Perhaps some automated techniques can be used to extract some FAQ . . .
it might be possible to do some feature extraction and clustering.  Yet,
after looking at users-prolog.mbox, any automated FAQ generation will
first require stripping away some parts of the multi-part messages and
many of the mail headers.  

Of course, it is more sci-fi than AI, but what if a gprolog-FAQ agent
could actually identify a frequently asked question and could generate 
an appropriate automated reply.

> From a practical point of view, I think it would be a good thing to
> maintain this FAQ under the CVS of GNU-Prolog at sourceforge (either
> under the module 'documentation' or inside a new module).

Here here, never underestimate the power of plain text!  It is so "diff"
friendly as well.  

> This would allow other person to help Christina to work on the FAQ.

I will be glad to help, particularly in areas where there is some
difference between the ISO definitions and some pre-existing practices.  
I also have access to a vintage quintus, recent mercury under solaris
current sicstus under a variety of platforms and a disposition to use
c/c++/jni call interfaces.

moo,
me,

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