Quote Originally Posted by gjshannon View Post
Hey Wysota:

By the way, I offered to use of our semantic search engine to Nokia for Qt use FOR FREE. I'd like to see if we can make it a lot easier to ask newbie questions, especially for the stuff that stumps a newbie but is second nature to gurus.
I wanted to implement an NLP engine in a form of a bot for Qt-related content myself but I didn't find time to do it.

The objective is to leverage an ontology of Qt documentation concepts via our semantic engine so that it is possible to get answers to simple questions really FAST.
Honestly, to get simple questions answered you don't need extra semantic measures. Why? First of all google already uses a semi-semantic approach, so searching through google will let you use synonyms and misspelled words. Second of all Qt docs are written in a very simple language so if you ask the search engine for simple terms, it is likely to return good results. Third of all many people here have very poor english skills and I'm guessing your engine is tailored for the english language so it will probably have trouble tolerating polish, indian or chineese syntax and homonyms in english sentences.

That way us newbies won't have to hit the forums (or buy commercial support) for the simple stuff.
Nokia earns money on support so I wouldn't expect them to be very happy about it

Just so you know that I am not the complete heartless slob you probably think I am (I'm actually not as bad as it seems, just have the thankless job of having to push some buttons once and a while).
I'm not judging people like that. If I were, I would have to judge myself this way too and I could not be very happy about the outcome of such judgegement There is nothing wrong in being irritated although I admit your level of patience seemed quite low. Unfortunately you have to live with the fact that we have our own jobs and nobody pays us to sit here and solve people's problems.