On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:55 AM, mmarco <mma...@unizar.es> wrote:
> Take a look at this:
> http://www.molto-project.eu/node/1412
>
> It is a library that can translate natural language sentences to sage
> commands. I haven't tested it, but the examples they show sound
> impressive:
>
> sage> compute the product of the octal number 12 and the binary number
> 100.
> (3) 40
> answer: it is 40 .
>
> sage> compute the greatest common divisor of x and the product of x
> and y.
> (4) x
> answer: it is x .
>
> sage> compute the greatest common divisor of x and the sum of x and y.
> (5) 1
> answer: it is 1 .
>
>
> Has somebody tested it?
> Do you think it would be worth the effort of including this in sage?

Since it depends on Haskell, I don't think we can consider including
it standard in Sage...

> I
> think that, for example, having an option in the notebook to enter
> commands in natural language would be a killer feature (assuming it
> works fine).

I guess it all depends on how well it works.  Natural language
processing is really hard to do well.

>
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