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- From: karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
- Subject: Re: programming challenge
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:25:10 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec12.100131.11703@zooid.guild.org>
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- <1992Dec14.114044.22303@cs.ruu.nl> <1992Dec14.185822.7058@wdl.loral.com>
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- In article <1992Dec14.185822.7058@wdl.loral.com> mab@wdl39.wdl.loral.com
- (Mark A Biggar) writes:
- >but of course this doesn't really solve the 'Goofy' problem which doesn't
- >have a general solution even with the addition of dictionary lookup because
- >word pairs like 'met' vs 'meet'. That problem looks like it take a full
- >English understanding AI to solve.
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- What? Forgive me, but for the guys' case aren't the number of overstrikes
- constant? So ooo => o and oooooo => oo.
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