[Reality] Sentence Parsing

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 sneftel@popmail.com wrote:

> I've been having a problem with the demo pump (both binary and
> source-built): Sentences like "Go down" do not work. I turned on
> logAllParts() in the sentence parser, and the problem became apparent:
> the parser isn't recognizing direct objects. For instance, if I feed
> it "Blow styrofoam cup to Kingdom Come with shotgun", it registers the
> verb, the indirect object and the abletive, but doesn't seem to even
> notice the cup. I'm not familiar enough with the code yet to be able
> to wade through the parser; has anyone encountered a similar problem?

Yipe!  Yes, we know!  When we were testing this release, it turns out we
weren't actually testing the same code that got into the archives!  There
are quite a few bugs, and also some code we didn't intend to release
*cough* divunal *cough* in copies of the archives there.  We'd really
appreciate it if you'd delete that directory without looking at it. =)  
If you're not going to be playing the game, you're welcome to poke at it
to learn stuff about TR, provided that you agree to the authoring
agreement at http://www.twistedmatrix.com/agreement.html and publicly
state that you do on one of the mailinglists here...

A 'brown-paper-bag' release is going to be coming out quickly (archives
have already been updated for the packaging error) -- there were quite a
few other bugs, too.  I wouldn't recommend playing with the 1.2.0 release
too much, actually -- a lot of stuff is broken, and most of it is just
silly one-line fixes that will be in 1.2.1, due out ASAP :).

Thanks for the bug report though; it shows us that somebody's paying
attention =)

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