Aucbvax.2358
fa.works
utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!works
Sun Jul 19 10:13:17 1981
Realtime proofreaders
>From SHRAGE@WHARTON-10 Sun Jul 19 10:03:08 1981
I think that one would lose a great deal of the effect of "offline"
proofreading if the system did much of that work in realtime which
the text was being entered. The clearest argument against that type
of system is that you are supposing that the errors are entirely
detectable from PREVIOUS context. Why should that be so? If you
are not assuming that then at what point do you extract and test?
Coherence is not a clearly distinguishable effect at any given level
(sentence, pgh, etc). Additionally, coherence and intention are
understanding effects. It is not clear that they can be extracted
without a rather fancy knowledge acquisition and utilization system
-- not to mention a grammar and semantics analyzer to front end the
thing (neither of which we are very comfortable with yet). Lastly,
more concretely, having a lot of little aid demons around it okay to
a point. You have to avoid the mistake that Twenex makes in being
overhelpful -- I wish that I could disable the space-delimiter help
system that keeps telling me that TPYE is not a legal command before
I've had a moment to back up over it and fix it!
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