[net.ai] YAPS information

liz@umcp-cs.arpa (07/12/84)

From:  Liz Allen <liz@umcp-cs.arpa>

As the person who wrote YAPS, I thought I should speak up.

We don't have a lot of good examples of production rule systems in
YAPS.  The main examples we have are a monkey and bananas example
and a little odd-even determiner (the latter is taken from a similar
example from OPS 5).  These two examples are on our distribution tape
(which includes YAPS and some other hacks written here at Maryland.

There is no YAPS primer of any sort; the only documentation is
a user's manual.  I have gotten good feedback, by and large,
from people using YAPS.

YAPS only runs under 4.1 right now since we are not yet running
Berkeley 4.2; we should be upgrading this summer.

For more information about YAPS or obtaining our distribution, send
mail to me.

                                -Liz Allen

Univ of Maryland, College Park MD
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