darcs-beta-2.7.98.1: a distributed, interactive, smart revision control system

English

Description

This modules provides rudimentary natural language generation (NLG) utilities. That is, generating natural language from a machine representation. Initially, only English is supported at all. Representations are implemented for:

  • countable nouns (plurality); and * lists of clauses (foo, bar and/or baz).

Synopsis

Documentation

englishNum :: Countable n => Int -> n -> ShowSSource

 englishNum 0 (Noun "watch") "" == "watches"
 englishNum 1 (Noun "watch") "" == "watch"
 englishNum 2 (Noun "watch") "" == "watches"

class Countable a whereSource

Things that have a plural and singular spelling

Methods

plural :: a -> ShowSSource

singular :: a -> ShowSSource

newtype Noun Source

This only distinguishes between nouns with a final -ch, and nouns which do not. More irregular nouns will just need to have their own type

 plural (Noun "batch") "" == "batches"
 plural (Noun "bat")   "" == "bats"
 plural (Noun "mouse") "" == "mouses" -- :-(

Constructors

Noun String 

Instances

data Pronoun Source

Constructors

It 

Instances

data This Source

 singular This (Noun "batch") "" == "this batch"
 plural   This (Noun "batch") "" == "these batches"

Constructors

This Noun 

Instances

orClauses :: [String] -> StringSource

Given a list of things, combine them thusly:

 orClauses ["foo", "bar", "baz"] == "foo, bar or baz"

intersperseLast :: String -> String -> [String] -> StringSource

As intersperse, with a different separator for the last | interspersal.