Tuesday, 10 December 1996

LOGIC FOR HOW TO CONSTRUCT PHRASES?

·      A large no. of words (usually common nouns or adverbs) are accompanied by "adjectives"

·     Normally the objective precedes the verb or noun.

·     A bio - data (resume) is not a piece of fiction/ literature – hence

a.  Most frequently occurring "common nouns" & "adverbs" are perhaps no more than a few hundred
b.  Most frequently occurring "adjectives" which precedes these common nouns & adverbs are also no more than few hundred.
c.  Number of probable combinations of these words & these adjectives is also quite limited.
d.  Words - phrases - Sentences are largely "Statement of Facts" and no "figments of imagination" hence repetitive in nature and content
e.  The "sequences" in which these  words - phrases appear (to make up a sentence) is fairly "Well - defined" with very little "variations"
 All of the above makes it reasonably simple to devise a RESUME - GENERATING SOFTWARE. As mentioned in one of my earlier (concept) notes, what we need to do is to
·     Take a large number of biodatas
·     Scan / OCR/ Index all the words appearing in these bio datas
·     Study & record the "occurrences" (the frequencies) of
                     I.      Each word  (Verb - adverb - adjective - preposition noun)
                   II.      Set of any two words (prefixed / suffixed to a given word)
                 III.      Set of any three words
                  IV.      So on & So forth.
·     We have already created a "directory" of some 6052 words (out of a total 1 million words) which have, each occurred more than 10 times in 3500 converted bio - datas.
·     Soon I will send to you (indexed) words contained in 100 originally typed bio - datas for which scanned bit – map image files are already given to you on some 15/20 floppies.
·     If required, we can, everyday go on scanning 50 to 100 typed bio - datas (we have some 35000 typed biodatas available with us) and go on
    - Increasing the "Population" of words
    - Improving the "frequency" of occurrence
But ideal time launch this massive scanning operation (of 35000 bio - datas) is after the ARDIS & ARGIS are ready even in crude form. Then the massive scanning Operation would itself become a "self - learning / improving" exercise for the software, making it truly "intelligent". In the enclosed pages, I have, by studying some 30/40 biodatas manually, tried to figure – out.
   - What are commonly occurring adjectives before some nouns & adverbs?
   - What words appear, before (and in some cases "after") following prepositions?
·     OF
·     WITH
·     FOR
·     AT
·     ON
·     IN
·     AFTER
·     TO
·     BY
·     AS
·     SINCE
·     FROM
·     UNDER
·     OUT
To dissect / analyses even a few hundred bio - datas manually is a her clean task ! To study several thousand (bio     datas) this way is next to impossible ! But it is precisely such set and repetitive (logical) activity where the computer hardware & software triumph over human brain. Let us harness these technological advances and create something superior than that RESUMIX has done.

h.c.parekh

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