Short:    Fun little artificial inteligence toy. (bug fixed)
Author:   spudley@mr-potatohead.com (Simon Champion)
Uploader: spudley@mr-potatohead.com (Simon Champion)
Type:     misc/misc


   Nicolas - Non-Inteligent COmputerised LAnguage System

(Ok. So it's a dodgy acronym  :-)


     UPDATE
    ~~~~~~~~
This is a replacement to the existing archive of the same name.

The version uploaded a week or two ago didn't work (ie it crashed!)
when the new questions feature was switched on. (didn't crash in my
programming directory, though..!?)

My apologies to all those who tried it and had problems, and my thanks
to those who mailled me to let me know.


     ABOUT
    ~~~~~~~

This little program is an experiment with Artificial Inteligence.
Actually, it's about as inteligent as a packet of liquorice alsorts,
but don't let that put you off.  It's still great fun to play around
with for a while.

It's concept is to learn the links between words, and use those to
output a meaningful sentence.  So, if you wrote "I like cats", it
would remember that cats can be liked, and sometime in the future
it would output a sentence about someone liking cats.   Maybe.

There's a small built in dictionary to get you started, and I've been
kind enough to also include a *slightly* bigger saved dictionary in the
archive. If you don't like my choice of vocabulary, simply enter your
own.  :-)


Bottom line:  This program is for *FUN*... so enjoy it!!!!!!




-->  spudley@mr-potatohead.com

-->  http://village.vossnet.co.uk/c/champion/
             (but this is web address probably going to change soon)


============================= Archive contents =============================

Original  Packed Ratio    Date     Time    Name
-------- ------- ----- --------- --------  -------------
   46948   28913 38.4% 02-Sep-92 13:20:36  amos.library
  104208   49456 52.5% 10-Oct-10 02:08:42  HAL9001
   33076   13064 60.5% 10-Oct-10 01:47:38  HAL9001.guide
    1125     531 52.8% 02-Sep-92 14:48:06  HAL9001.guide.info
     575     145 74.7% 10-Oct-10 02:09:24  HAL9001.info
     196     128 34.6% 02-Sep-92 13:24:56  Nicolas.Adjectives
      50      48  4.0% 02-Sep-92 13:24:56  Nicolas.Adverbs
    1563     576 63.1% 02-Sep-92 13:24:56  Nicolas.Nouns
     878     210 76.0% 02-Sep-92 13:24:54  Nicolas.Verbs
    1603     883 44.9% 02-Sep-92 12:59:58  HAL9001.readme
    3842     580 84.9% 02-Sep-92 13:01:48  HAL9001.readme.info
-------- ------- ----- --------- --------
  194064   94534 51.2% 09-Aug-98 02:59:14   11 files
