[seqfan] Re: Trying to use the author field of the oeis for FindStat

[Neil Sloane]

I concur with Robert Israel's response. Write a better parser!

Concerning the particular changes that were suggested, most of them would
change the meaning of the line or are unnecessary.  Here are some
particular responses to those suggestions:

('A005985', '_Colin Mallows_; revised Jun 13 2005'),
Not that important but ";" -> "," would be good. NO, that changes the
meaning

('A117239', '_Eric W. Weisstein_, Mar 05, 2006')
I'd appreciate removing the comma after 05.  NO, we have always made that
comma optional

('A184184', '_Emeric Deutsch_, Feb 16 2011 (based on communication from
_Vladeta Jovovic_)'),
or leave it as is. LEAVE IT AS IS

('A135533', '_N. J. A. Sloane_, based on a message from Guy Steele and D.
E. Knuth, Mar 01 2008'),
Same problem, but worse. LEAVE IT THE WAY IT IS.

('A199352', '_R. H. Hardin_ Nov 05 2011'),
I'd appreciate a comma after the second underscore. LEAVE IT THE WAY IT IS,
there are probably a lot of these, and there is no ambiguity here

('A018178', '_N. J. A. Sloane_.'),
Please remove the period. LEAVE IT THE WAY IT IS. That period is fine.

('A016437', 'rwgk(AT)cci.lbl.gov<http://cci.lbl.gov> (R.W.
Grosse-Kunstleve)'),
I'd appreciate
'R. W. Grosse-Kunstleve (rwgk(AT)cci.lbl.gov<http://cci.lbl.gov>)'
I WILL FIX THIS (but not right away)




Best regards
Neil

Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation.
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On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 2:05 AM, <israel at math.ubc.ca> wrote:

> Basically the problem is that the entries are written by many different
> people over many years, and we are not always diligent about following
> formatting rules.  It might be best if you could make your software be more
> flexible at parsing names and dates.
>
> Anything between "_"'s is an author. Month names (in all their possible
> variants) are pretty easy to recognize; a four-digit integer from 1990 to
> the current year is a year; a one or two digit integer before or after a
> month name is a day. Anything else can probably be ignored, as a first
> approximation.
>
> Cheers,
> Robert
>
>
> On May 31 2015, Rubey Martin wrote:
>
>  Hi Alonso!
>>
>>  Some of those latter eight need to be corrected. I'll get back to you
>>> later today. Al
>>>
>>
>>  These entries look OK (authors are separated by " and " or "," possibly
>>>> followed by a date). However, the following are harder to parse:
>>>>
>>>
>> ('A032537', '_Patrick De Geest_, april 1998.'),
>>
>> I'd appreciate "april 1998." -> "Apr 1998"
>>
>> ('A005985', '_Colin Mallows_; revised Jun 13 2005'),
>>
>> Not that important but ";" -> "," would be good.
>>
>> ('A117239', '_Eric W. Weisstein_, Mar 05, 2006')
>>
>> I'd appreciate removing the comma after 05
>>
>> ('A184184', '_Emeric Deutsch_, Feb 16 2011 (based on communication from
>> _Vladeta Jovovic_)'),
>>
>> I'm not sure what's best here.  Either
>>
>> '_Emeric Deutsch_, _Vladeta Jovovic_, Feb 16 2011'
>>
>> or leave it as is.
>>
>> ('A135533', '_N. J. A. Sloane_, based on a message from Guy Steele and D.
>> E. Knuth, Mar 01 2008'),
>>
>> Same problem, but worse.  Either
>>
>> '_N. J. A. Sloane_, Guy Steele, D. E. Knuth, Mar 01 2008'
>>
>> or
>>
>> '_N. J. A. Sloane_, Mar 01 2008 (based on a message from Guy Steele and
>> D. E. Knuth)')
>>
>> FindStat would then remove parenthetical remarks to obtain the author.
>>
>> ('A199352', '_R. H. Hardin_ Nov 05 2011'),
>>
>> I'd appreciate a comma after the second underscore.
>>
>> ('A018178', '_N. J. A. Sloane_.'),
>>
>> Please remove the period.
>>
>> ('A016437', 'rwgk(AT)cci.lbl.gov<http://cci.lbl.gov> (R.W.
>> Grosse-Kunstleve)'),
>>
>> I'd appreciate
>>
>> 'R. W. Grosse-Kunstleve (rwgk(AT)cci.lbl.gov<http://cci.lbl.gov>)'
>>
>> Many many many thanks!
>>
>> Martin
>>
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