From LOJBAN%CUVMB.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:51:59 2010 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Mon, 24 May 1993 17:53:23 -0400 Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 9030; Mon, 24 May 93 17:52:36 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 4764; Mon, 24 May 93 17:53:38 EDT Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 09:53:30 GMT+1200 Reply-To: Chris Handley Sender: Lojban list From: Chris Handley Organization: University of Otago Subject: ?unt X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: O X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Tue May 25 09:53:30 1993 X-From-Space-Address: @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Message-ID: Hi I have had several responses to this. Some even managed it without computer help. The answer was (dare I say obviously) 'aunt'. Point is that, in English and English-like languages, i.e. most of the Germanic and Romance languages that I am familiar with, we classify on beginnings -- that is why we need rhyming dictionaries. The other point is that in any task of this form, and that could well include rafsi disambiguation, there is often considerable interference from 'obvious' but incorrect answers. This _may_ make a difference to any human rafsi resolution algorithm - computers are not quite as gullible (not yet anyway) ====================================================================== Chris Handley chandley@otago.ac.nz Dept of Computer Science Ph (+64) 3-479-8499 University of Otago Fax (+64) 3-479-8577 Dunedin, NZ ______________________________________________________________________ The light at the end of the tunnel has been switched off to conserve power.