[9fans] Brian Kernighan?OB

[Borja Marcos borjam@we.lc.ehu.es]

>
> IBM's jikes Java compiler also tries spelling correction, but its
> ideas of proximity have nothing to do with any human's. it's
> particularly unfortunate that it doesn't even know about the
> Java naming conventions. (not that i necessarily think it should,
> it's just that if it's going to try to guess what you meant to type,
> it would be better off making educated guesses.)

	A friend of mine of mine wrote a Ph.D. thesis describing a
the use of fuzzy logic to improve the behavior of an OCR system
capable of recognizing handwritten text. The idea was
to write a prototype Pascal compiler capable of getting handwritten
code. Of course, this works with a limited dictionary, such as the
set of reserved words in Pascal.

	The recognition rate increased dramatically over the result
of the pure OCR, done with a neural network.

	You can contact him by email if you are interested.
His name is Javier Echanobe, and his email address is
javi@we.lc.ehu.es.



	Borja.

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