[sage-edu] Solving Word Problems with Sage

Hi, I created a rudimentary word problem solver, see http://sagenb.org/home/pub/1096/ What improvements are needed in order for it be seriously considered for inclusion in Sage? Thanks, Timothy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To po

Re: [sage-edu] Solving Word Problems with Sage

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Timothy Clemans wrote: > Hi, > > I created a rudimentary word problem solver, see > http://sagenb.org/home/pub/1096/ What improvements are needed in order > for it be seriously considered for inclusion in Sage? "Question: What is the cube root of 27? Answer: The

Re: [sage-edu] Solving Word Problems with Sage

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:14 AM, William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Timothy Clemans > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I created a rudimentary word problem solver, see >> http://sagenb.org/home/pub/1096/ What improvements are needed in order >> for it be seriously considered for inclusi

Re: [sage-edu] Solving Word Problems with Sage

Timothy Clemans wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:14 AM, William Stein wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Timothy Clemans >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I created a rudimentary word problem solver, see >>> http://sagenb.org/home/pub/1096/ What improvements are needed in order >

Re: [sage-edu] Solving Word Problems with Sage

jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: > Timothy Clemans wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:14 AM, William Stein wrote: >> >> >>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Timothy Clemans >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, I created a rudimentary word problem solver, see ht

Re: [sage-edu] Solving Word Problems with Sage

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:01 AM, wrote: > jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: >> Here's maybe a relevant link: a natural language processing package for >> python: >> >> http://www.nltk.org/ >> > > > (It's amazing how much quality stuff we get for free because we are > open-source and use python a

Re: [sage-edu] Solving Word Problems with Sage

What should the first version of Sage Answers be able to do? On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:04 AM, William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:01 AM,   wrote: >> jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: >>> Here's maybe a relevant link: a natural language processing package for >>> python: >>> >>> http

Re: [sage-edu] Solving Word Problems with Sage

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Timothy Clemans wrote: > What should the first version of Sage Answers be able to do? > Just to begin, you could try to set it up so that it can solve basic problems that a freshman calculus student might ask. For example, the plot/integral/derivative of a simple

[sage-edu] Re: Solving Word Problems with Sage

David Joyner wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Timothy Clemans > wrote: >> What should the first version of Sage Answers be able to do? >> > > Just to begin, you could try to set it up so that it can solve basic problems > that a freshman calculus student might ask. For example, the > plo

[sage-edu] Re: Advice on adopting Sage in undergrad teaching?

Thanks for pointing that out. I've made ticket #7506 for that so its not forgotten. Should be pretty easy to update that documentation. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7506 -M. Hampton On Nov 18, 5:17 am, chris wuthrich wrote: > From my perspective the biggest problem was that I di

Re: [sage-edu] Re: Solving Word Problems with Sage

Hi, According to those articles posted on the Wolfram blog, Wolfram Alpha is "over 7 million lines of code" and maybe a decade of work by a lot of people. I wonder if one saw the actual queries that are made, if *most* of them (say the top 95%), then it would be relatively easy to implement some