Programming
In the last article, I talked about determining sentence types automatically. Another interesting task is to generate the “negation” of a given sentence. Example-1: Sentence => “My teacher lives nearby” Negation => “My teacher does not live nearby” Example-2: Sentence => “She did not like that speech” Negation => “She liked that speech” I have […]
Sentences in English can be classified into the following common types: – Simple sentence (“I am drinking coffee”) – Compound sentence (“He came home with his school friend and they had an enjoyable evening”) – Complex sentence (“Whenever my dog barks, I give him some biscuit”) – Imperative sentence (“Please keep quiet”) – Interrogative sentence […]
Snake and Ladder is a popular game that originated in India and later spread to other parts of the world. Even now it is a hit among kids in South India, where people use the traditional game board, coins and dice. Last week, I had a chance to play this game with my 5-year-old granddaughter, who […]
Visual Prolog has its roots in Turbo Prolog, which was popularized by Borland in the mid 1980s. It is developed and supported by PDC A/S, Denmark. So how is Visual Prolog different from other Prolog implementations out there, for example, SWI-Prolog or Sicstus Prolog? Here are the key differences: 1) It is not an ISO Prolog […]
WH-Questions are questions that begin with the following words: – Who (“Who came here yesterday?”) – What (“What is the goal of this project?”) – When (“When can I visit my parents?”) – Where (“Where did he go?”) – Why (“Why is everyone running away?”) – Which (“Which is the book you recommend?”) – How […]
Eager Future2 is a Common Lisp library that facilitates parallel computation. It is based on the idea of a “future” that acts as a “proxy” for a concurrently computed expression. Unlike the “lparallel” library that I had discussed in the last article, this library does not give us control over the number of “worker threads” […]
You may recall that in the last article I had reviewed the book “Algorithms in Lisp” by Vsevolod Domkin. There was a reference to the lparallel library in Chapter 15 of the book. That immediately reminded me of the nice discussion of lparallel by Edi Weitz in Chapter 11 of his excellent book “Common Lisp Recipes”. Since […]
iLexicon is an “intelligent” dictionary that can be used to build Natural Language applications. I have two implementations, one in Lisp and another in Prolog. Both implementations are memory-based, in order to speed up performance. I have written several articles referencing it, for example see this. LiteDB is a NoSQL database for .NET. I […]
In the last article, I showed how we can invoke C# methods from LispWorks Enterprise Edition, through the COM/Automation interface. That approach relied on invoking the Automation methods dynamically, without depending on the Type library (*.tlb). In this article, I will discuss the other approach, which uses the Type library. According to LispWorks documentation, this […]
In an earlier article, I showed how to invoke C# methods from Sicstus Prolog. Today, I would like to detail the steps for doing the same from LispWorks Lisp. LispWorks Enterprise Edition comes budled with support for COM and Automation. This is what we will be using. What this means is that we have to […]
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