From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 25 23:33:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D53E16A468 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:33:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from colin.brace@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.157]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D453213C469 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:33:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from colin.brace@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so892252fgg.35 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:33:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=QFrywrG+W8e8CrfbIBnV5ypR4DOFd3AzIcHiqe6l0HQ=; b=MetMv0dUxHEBtASRAnfmxmKN6EnEqbAirypFLVdnXAvU22C/3GBohwSoEMc5tB1eT1+EIiPUpvI6xSGMO1TFhCTCg1WI1eYvjFaIO8XFXKmY7UPFER9C9VY5Rno9nMGoEIyGw/5DBpYmR1nPD7uUsmLkNuKRP5quWFryQjle+Ro= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=uB+juH5g1G+P9A+SDw4sPpBK46o5GH3Vz+XpQSJuyrRBIazOFbulnbYtCt7TWMCmPPMMLnGYy9etlB5HVC9F/xTsKLEMlC35itx860a/v8kHd6zSjF3pk/gA0/z/LwcRioVlnPftggOiMDt0tAgvYSgQlJEaKPVK5RBrM0z2dPM= Received: by 10.82.112.3 with SMTP id k3mr4658452buc.15.1201304019038; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:33:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.108.2 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:33:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:33:38 +0100 From: "Colin Brace" Sender: colin.brace@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20080125203728.GB91189@demeter.hydra> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4dc0cfea0712310757u7a970bb0rb2b29a931ad9767b@mail.gmail.com> <4dc0cfea0712310904m6ea9a530k7be838f6ab0aa302@mail.gmail.com> <18297.10683.626482.862907@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4dc0cfea0712310950u508f8d54i903c5c25b56b8eff@mail.gmail.com> <18297.12413.784161.298086@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4dc0cfea0712311032k1f03ff1em521c6ea0c12d65d8@mail.gmail.com> <4dc0cfea0712311040n424db45ak365bcfe510d0b054@mail.gmail.com> <20080125203728.GB91189@demeter.hydra> X-Google-Sender-Auth: b141d26e2e348eb0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:33:41 -0000 Victor, If you are talking about human language translation, which I gather you are, then the amount of effort you will need to spend on developing and/or acquiring linguistic resources and/or building interfaces for linguists to code dictionaries and grammars, and/or interfaces for editors to render the output in a decent form, and/or tools to clean up the input, will far outweigh in importance the computational efficiency of your algorithms. Deciding between C++, Java, or Python etc. will be the very least of your problems... -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl