Re: VMs: vms sentences

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Mark G Lee <M.G.Lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've been looking at the VMS - and have wondered
> about what would
> happen if we applied existing unsupervised grammar
> induction algorithms
> to it (this is opportune since one of my phd
> students is doing this now
> for english and we have the various bits of code
> lying around). Of
> course all of this hinges on whether we can identify
> descrete sentences
> in the manuscript - though my (rather limited)
> reading hasn't come up
> with much on this.

My best bet, also suggested by Nick, would be the 
so-called recipes section of the MS, which consists
of the last folios (103 to 116). Paragraphs are
easily recognisable, and they are short enough so
that they could be individual sentences. There are
just over 300 of these short paragraphs.

Nothing is guaranteed of course. These could be 
sentences, they could also be nonsense. They could
also be meaningful contents which are not sentences.

There are several transcriptions of this section
of the MS. If you don't know how to get to the
interlinear file, and extract one or more of them,
just shout.

Kind regards, Rene

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