Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!cca!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!lanl-a!jlg From: jlg@lanl-a.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: rate of speed Message-ID: <347@lanl-a.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jun-83 12:37:58 EDT Article-I.D.: lanl-a.347 Posted: Thu Jun 9 12:37:58 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jun-83 14:47:11 EDT References: <395@iuvax.UUCP> teklabs.2056 Lines: 9 Rate of speed is well understood by the general population as being redundant and illiterate. The only reason to discuss it on the network (it seems to me) is to determine what it should mean (if it had any meaning at all). This is in the context of a natural language understanding program (which oughtODshould be the topic of this newsgroup). To be 'user friendly', such a program would assume that input from humans had some meaning. If it couldn't find a non- redundant, grammatical meaning for its input, then it could assume that the input was in error. I would be very happy if such a program returned a message like: 'I don't understand "rate of speed"; do you mean "acceleration"?'