From: John Kelly
Message: 12324
Date: 2008-03-11
--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Jon Fernquest" <bayinnaung@...> wrote:
>
> Dear List Members;
>
> Has anyone ever written a computer program that generates all possible
> Pali words and phrases/compounds?
>
> There is a file containing every word in the Tipitaka:
> http://nibbanam.com/pali_language_tools.html#PaliWordList
>
> John Kelly's Digha Nikaya translations and grammatical analysis that
> he started recently certainly helps beginners (like myself) to start
> doing this themselves.
>
> He's probably memorized all these grammatical tables but maybe he
> could provide a mental transcript of what tables he would use if he
> had to.
>
> Generating grammar is a lot easier for a computer to do than parse
> (decompose) grammar so reverse engineering John Kelly's thought
> processes might lead to an interesting and very doable little computer
> program.
>
> With metta,
> Jon Fernquest
>