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- From: jakobs@utrurt.uni-trier.de (Oliver Jakobs)
- Subject: Re: Computer writes a book?
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- Organization: University of Trier
- References: <1993Jan25.163029.1901@seas.smu.edu> <74AXBPTT@cc.swarthmore.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:22:59 GMT
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- In <74AXBPTT@cc.swarthmore.edu> behrens@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eric Behrens) writes:
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- >But music has only a dozen words in its vocabulary (notes of the scale) and
- >the English language has tens of thousands. I cannot believe that computer
- >science is capable of replicating the intricate constructions of language.
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- I'd say the analogy is not of the right order. I've heard that scales are
- more like phonemes or letters, and that there are groups or patterns of
- scales which could be regarded as ``words of music''. There has been done
- some work trying to apply linguistic knowledge to musical ``texts''. I don't
- remember the scientist's name, but I could look up some references if someone
- was interested.
-
- Oliver
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- Oliver Jakobs, Dept. of Computational Linguistics, Trier University, Germany
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