Letters to the Editor: On the Need for Studying Ill-Formed Input
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I think, like the reviewer of Bruce Ballard 's previous paper, that he wants the moon. However , as one who has tried, for the purposes of lecturing, to extract concrete system descriptions with workedthrough examples f rom published material , I think he is right to call for bet ter standards. Alan Bundy (1981) has made a similar appeal for AI in general. I t ' s impor tant , in part icular, to apprec ia te that raising the s tandard of report ing raises the s tandard not only of the reader ' s work but that of the writer 's: anyone who is obliged to provide a coheren t account of a set of exper iments soon discovers which ones he hasn ' t done and needs to do, sometimes forthwith before continuing writing. The problem Ballard does not face, and should say something about, is the scale impact of his proposal: providing everything called for in useful, if not exhaustive, detail, is liable to generate very long papers. One can indeed plough through whole theses intended in principle, and not conspicuously failing in practice, to provide what Ballard calls for, and still not find sufficient evidence of what has been done and, more importantly, how it has been done. How much grammar, and more significantly, how much dict ionary, should you put in to support your description and claims for per formance? Ballard would give much more meat to his case if he provided some concrete examples of papers he feels comes closest to what he is asking for, with some comments on their successes and failures. How well, to take some random examples , do Wal tz ' s (1978) PLANES paper, Erman et al. (1980) on HearsayI I , or Warren and Pereira 's (1982) Chat -80 measure up, or, on a larger scale, Woods ' s (1972) LUNAR report? But perhaps the correct response to Ballard 's suggestion is to ask him to take some system and provide the kind of account of it he is looking for. Show us the way, friend.
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