"Mark" == Mark Swofford <mark@romanization.com> writes:
Mark> Perhaps my post was misunderstood, because I'm not sure Mark> where the point of disagreement is. Mark> I never said that the process could be *totally* automated. Mark> Is your program that "does most of the work but ... can't do Mark> it all" reliably correcting less than 98 percent of the Mark> quotation marks and apostrophes in book-length texts? If so, Mark> perhaps additional fine-tuning is possible. I rather think that instead of trying to push 98% to 99% one should try to increase reliability. One should be sure that the program never silently introduces an error, and this is really hard. For example, one cannot assume that a ' between letters is an apostrophe, hence rendered with a right single quotation mark (do you know the standard exception in English?) nor assume English, since even in English books non-english words may be included. And increasing the reliability to 100% might require to check each one. Carlo Traverso