alt Hacker NewsWhat part of this can't be done by a novice programmer who knows a little pattern matching and has enough patience to write down a hundred patterns to match?
What part of this can't be done by a novice programmer who knows a little pattern matching and has enough patience to write down a hundred patterns to match?
Long tail, coping with typos, and understanding negation.
If natural language was as easy as "enough patience to write down a hundred patterns to match", we'd have had useful natural language interfaces in the early 90s — or even late 80s, if it was really only "a hundred".