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<H1>Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</H1>
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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</A></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 20 May 97 13:21:00 -0700</LI>
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In <<A HREF="msg00562.html">9705181718.80s6#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</A>>, on 05/18/97
at 10:21 AM, cg#ami-cg,graysage.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Gray) said:
>[Chris L:]
>:>That leaves what to do with ambiguous forms, and maybe just
>:>not allowing them is enough?
>:
>:Which is why I can't do this.
>OK, your requirements demand you allow that kind of complex input,
>and accept attempts at it from less-than-perfect English typers (most
>of us!) In previous notes we have discussed ways in which the
>computer can attempt to figure out what it was the player wanted it
>to do. This will likely often not be what the player intended the
>computer try to do. So, are you planning on supporting any general
>"undo" command? I do realise this is virtually impossible in a
>multi-player environment. The reason I ask is that I, as a player,
>would much rather have the computer refuse to do something
>potentially ambiguous, instead of going ahead without my confirmation
>and doing something that I had not intended it do. I would of course
>be happy with a system setting that told it my preference.
Not quite. There are simple sides to the problem here:
1) Statements which are not ambiguous
2) Statements which are grammatically ambiguous
3) Statements which are ambiguous in the current MUD context
#3 is of course a subset of #2.
What I need to be able to do is to distinguish between #3 and #2, such
that I process #3 type statements as if they were unambiguous (which
they are contextually if not gramatically), and abort processing on
what is left of #2 type statements.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00547" HREF="msg00547.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>,
coder <a href="mailto:coder#ibm,net">coder#ibm,net</a>, Sun 18 May 1997, 04:48 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00525" HREF="msg00525.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sun 18 May 1997, 00:17 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00579" HREF="msg00579.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>,
Miroslav Silovic <a href="mailto:silovic#srce,hr">silovic#srce,hr</a>, Mon 19 May 1997, 08:55 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00562" HREF="msg00562.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00638" HREF="msg00638.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 21 May 1997, 03:30 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00815" HREF="msg00815.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Tue 27 May 1997, 04:52 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00868" HREF="msg00868.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 28 May 1997, 06:21 GMT
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