rda@epistemi.edinburgh.ac.UK (Robert Dale) (07/26/88)
Path: epistemi!rda From: Robert Dale <rda%epistemi.edinburgh.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK> Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: ES technology in RightWriter or Grammatik Summary: Anyone know what ES technology there is in RightWriter or Grammatik? Date: Wed, 20 Jul 88 08:00 EDT References: <19880718035907.2.NICK@HOWARD-JOHNSONS.LCS.MIT.EDU> Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK Lines: 24 I notice that, according to the recently posted summary of Spang 4:5, "Right Writer and Gramentek II (grammar and style checkers) use expert system technology, sold 100,000 copies each and have not been sold as expert systems." I've never used either of these programs, but have read reviews of them (and their promotional stuff) fairly closely, and I can't see the ES technology. As far as I could tell, both simply search the text for "bad strings" and suggest corresponding replacements, presumably using a simple table lookup mechanism (although the newer Grammatik III may be more sophisticated). Anyone care to comment? Does the Spang article say anything more illuminating? R -- Robert Dale Phone: +44 31 667 1011 x6470 | University of Edinburgh UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!epistemi!rda | Centre for Cognitive Science ARPA: rda%epistemi.ed.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk | 2 Buccleuch Place JANET: rda@uk.ac.ed.epistemi | Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland