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A cool system but I'd suggest this is NLP to the extent SQL or a similar (or somewhat better) query language is NLP. You've made queries in your query language easy but it's more like interactive programming than free-form NLP.

Not that it's a bad application, it's nice, it's just if one extended this model, one would wind-up with a query language, not something new.

Thanks for the praise!

Totally agree; it's not true NLP.

Moreover, true NLP is currently not achievable. We would need an algorithm that passes the Turing test to infer the meaning of a free-form statement.

Like my parent post said, every current NLP system uses some hard-coded assumptions. They just differ in the amount of assumptions.

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