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sp332 on May 5, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Betty – English-like interface for the command lin...

My favorite command-line parser was in the (now-defunct) Ubiquity [edit: not unity] project from Mozilla. It had internationalized parsing, extendable verbs and noun types.

http://mitcho.com/blog/projects/a-demonstration-of-ubiquity-...

edit2: another link https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Parser_2

topdownjimmy on May 5, 2014 [–]

Yes! I remember this!

http://vimeo.com/1561578

sp332 on May 5, 2014 | [–]

And "Parser 2" was much better than that! It could predict verbs from nouns and use multi-word verbs without hyphens.

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