On Mon, February 14, 2011 17:47, Pavithra said:
> David Eddy,
>
> I think you have an excellant Idea.. Just imagine feeding a COBOL program
> and asking Watson to convert that to Java and open source or
> whatever... (01)
Watson does not "understand" its input text. It probabilistically finds
its answer, often getting it right. Who would want a 100,000 line program
to be converted with an 80% probability that each line was converted
correctly? (02)
> --- On Mon, 2/14/11, David Eddy <deddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> For certain Watson handles the sort of textual documents that humans
> tend to deal with. There is another type of textual document that
> very few humans can cope with... source code.
>
> Any speculation what would happen if Watson were fed a diet of
> computer programs? Stuff like COBOL, Fortran, JCL, CICS, APL, HTML,
> PHP, Python, Java, JavaScript & the hundreds of languages in active
> use in enterprises.
>
> Could Watson answer questions like: "I need to change XYZ... what
> else do I need to pay attention to?" (03)
This is a very different question. A system that uses Watson and knows
what the reserved words are could provide what non-reserved words most
frequently appear along with the specified word. However, an algorithmic
program could easily list every other non-reserved word that is used
in conjunction with the specified one, sorting them by type of term:
subroutine, method, variable of different type, etc. I don't see that
Watson would be useful for this. (04)
-- doug foxvog (05)
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