Project Turing Release Notes

Online Project Turing Release Notes

As an online demonstration tool, Project Turing will continue to provide samples of the effectiveness of the pattern-matching paradigm. This page will be updated regularly with release notes when changes are made.

Change notes

Version 0.7-0024j: 5 March 2012: Added a number of the key contractions used in English. At this stage, we have not implemented a word-level pattern matching engine, so contractions are handled manually.
Version 0.7-0022j: 19 February 2012: Addition of tuturial samples.
Version 0.7-0021j: 16 February 2012: Minor additions to patterns to display plurals and certain proper names properly.
Version 0.7-0018j: 11 February 2012: Added intersection for passive cases to showcase capability. Added new examples to demonstrate the point of passive intersection.
Version 0.7-0013j: 8 February 2012: Deploy to online test and demonstration servers. Use radius in corners of buttons for nicer effect.
Version 0.7-0012j: 8 February 2012: Some issues with Internet Explorer addressed by stopping caching. Display formatting for the web has been simplified. The latest changes should make using the intelligent dictionary more intuitive to use and easier to read.
Version 0.7-0006j: 5 February 2012: Created Ajax console to display matches. This improves display performance and helps users with clarity around the browser back button. Highlighting the selected sample button also for beter clarity.
Version 0.7-0001j: 26 January 2012: Major revision completed. The version 7 engine is now operating. This brings a large number of changes to the core engine and allows for the display of more levels of pattern matching than previous versions. The "Tracking" tab in the samples page illustrates the capability of matching phrases embedded within others. Happy Australia Day!
Version 0.6-0544j: 31 December 2011: Added additional screen to word display to include details of all word forms possible on the second word screen. This allows words like 'was' to display washington and washingtons as alternative forms of the word was (You can look it up if this doesn't make sense!)
Version 0.6-0534j: 21 December 2011: Refactoring. It's that time of year to be ready for 2012. We're just improving the design to cater to changes such as the upcoming sentence generator and the online school trials. Again, these code improvements should result in no visible changes to the program's output.
Version 0.6-0526j: 17 December 2011: More changes to code base to improve ongoing support. No change to functionality is expected, although some testing indicates annother version is required before all samples again function properly.
Version 0.6-0525j: 12 December 2011: Refactoring code ongoing to better patterns. Japanese example fixed - failing due to typo in clause pattern.
Version 0.6-0523j: 7 December 2011: Minor bug fixes. Found some missing load statements after migration. Working through examples to repair any failing examples. Reducing some duplicates with improved clarity on subjects and objects within clauses.
Version 0.6-0522j: 4 December 2011: Large rework to fully separate patterns from code base and include settings details within the Xml.
Version 0.6-0502j: 8 November 2011: Allowed for XML input of a words patterns to remove code change requirement. This facilitates users to create their own languages without need for code access.
Version 0.6-0498j: 24 October 2011: Updated support for tag phrases and improved performance of some re-used patterns such as phrase lists.
Version 0.6-0493j: 19 October 2011: Minor updates only. This version with its associated sample files has been used for the current video explanations.
Version 0.6-0485j: 16 October 2011: Fixes to some of the screen displays and other feedback from Japan. New samples list view with ability to modify a sentence from the samples before submission.
Version 0.6-0484j: 16 October 2011: Simplified internal handling of pattern selection for overphrase use including senses and inflections. Minor changes to web user interface to clarify which patterns are matched in clauses, nouns and adjective phrases.
Version 0.6-0466j: 8 October 2011: Revision of core code to implement improved intersection and merge pronoun use with noun use. New examples introduced to demonstrate capability of pattern engine.
Version 0.6-0455j: 30 September 2011: Eliminated redundant display of patterns that are shorter than the longest sentence. Updated CSS to improve sentences display and converted some early patterns to more flexible ones around pronouns.
Version 0.6-0451j: 28 September 2011: A number of changes are incorporated that match more complicated phrases such as adjectives plus clauses and the use of more complex phrase patterns (like gerund and infinitive forms) within other patterns. Some minor changes added to the user interface to display more matched patterns than before.
Version 0.6-0406j: 9 September 2011: We have changed the way the web engine works to make it easier to maintain. There should be little noticable change this time around but we are now able to add a few new features to the web and windows versions more easily.
Version 0.6-0393j: 23 August 2011: major streamlining of phrase-level patterns and the loading mechanism. Xml implemented for external pattern loading to enable future product flexibility. Many of the trial patterns have been removed and consolidated into larger patterns. The net result should be greater reliability although in the short-term some missing patterns will result in fewer valid matches.
Version 0.6-0315j: 21 June 2011: include release tracking section. Adding clarification of Japanese intent to samples page.
Version 0.6-0312j: include FAQ section.

Please refer to the FAQ section if you have any questions.