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Just like emacs can help you in reading code, we could have a system of coloring words / parts of sentences in English, to indicate how it should be parsed.
But here, users would need to do their own coloring, at least some of the time.
It's simpler than showing parse-trees by underlining.
It's
more work, yes, but any text with a high ratio of readers to writers should use something like this.
If only those unclear philosophers had such a system... (I'm thinking of Kant (I think))
maybe combine with this
Rich_20Metric_20Textual_20Notation
[JesusHChrist, Mar 30 2005]
Brill Tagger
http://complingone....st/brilltagger.html
It tries to determine a words part of speech, ie verb, noun etc.. [humanzee, Apr 02 2005]
[link]
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Every programmer I know uses a completely different syntax highlighting scheme, which works fine because the text is computer rendered, but everyone would have to agree a common scheme for print, and I forsee difficulties there. This might engender a new poetry movement, where through cleverly chosen syntax, practitioners also produce a pleasing visual effect (or perhaps the opposite). I like the possibilities, so [+] |
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As a barely litterate person IT would HELP ME a lot to HAVE just SUBJECT in BLUE, VERB in RED and OBJECT in GREEN so that I could scan through text SKIPping all the BULLSHIT that entangles my eye. Couldn't this be automatic? |
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Yeah - I think this could be do-able with a word-macro and a few dictionary files. |
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Does anyone know where I can get a comprehensive set of separate files containing verbs, nouns and 'describing words'? |
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Grammar, punctuation and spelling are more than most can handle.
I can imagine the the more pedantic: "cl:noun,red - it's so annoying when people don't colour properly" |
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I implemented somthing similar to Jesus' suggestion while I was at uni. It was a web form which you pasted your text into. After you clicked 'process' it sent the text to a Part of Speech tagger - a unix based version of the Brill Tagger (see link). The output was then something like. The/det dog/nn robbed/vd the/det bank/nn. This was then processed by a script which turned it into html + javascript which allowed you to turn different types of words 'on and off' - i.e from black to green (for verbs) or black to red (for nouns) etc. |
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I thought it might be useful in language learning for example; if you wanted to scan texts for grammatical structures quickly, or to highlight them for presentation and teaching purposes. |
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I also wondered if you used the same scheme across languages, whether, the extra information learnt from your mother tongue/text would help one when trying to read a second language. For example, when trying to guess unknown words in a text it might be helpful to know if it was a noun or verb - though in many languages this is sometimes clear from the morphology. |
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Unfortunately, when the uni was taken over by a much larger local one last October, the department folded and the web server got turned off.so I cant post a link to it. |
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UP with this I shall NOT put. |
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Time flies like an arrow. But fruit flies
like a banana. |
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So now I need to stop writing every 20 seconds so I can color my words? No thanks, bub. I'm throwing you a bone. |
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This would be good for making really tricky sentences (with lots of clauses) readable. |
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Parsing is no longer taught, unless you are studying an English Major, or somesuch. I doubt there would be sufficient need for it. |
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I'm not so sure [Bubba] It used to come up in my school computer science classes (though I don't know if they teach those anymore) |
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