Okay, so today I wanted to mess around with Sable WWF. It’s this thing for turning natural language into well-formed formulas, you know, like for logic stuff. Sounds kinda nerdy, but it’s actually pretty cool once you get into it.
First things first, I had to get it set up. I had some trouble using pip to install it. So I decided to clone the repository from GitHub and build it from the source code. I just followed the instructions in the readme.
Building Sable WWF
- Cloned the repository.
- Ran the build script.
- Waited for a bit… and bam, it was built.
Now that I had Sable WWF up and running, it was time to give it a whirl. I tried out some simple sentences first, just to see how it worked. For instance, I typed in “Every man is mortal” and it spit out this formula: ∀x (man(x) → mortal(x)).
I also tested the sentence “John loves Mary” and it translated it to: love(john, mary). It’s quite literal.
Playing Around
I started throwing more complex sentences at it, like “If a farmer owns a donkey then he beats it.” Now, this one’s a bit tricky because it’s got that whole pronoun thing going on. But Sable WWF handled it like a champ, turning it into something like ∀x ∀y ((farmer(x) ∧ donkey(y) ∧ own(x, y)) → beat(x, y)). Not bad, right?
After messing around with sentences for a while, I thought it would be fun to try generating some text from formulas too. So, I fed it something like ∃x (man(x) ∧ happy(x)) and it gave me back “There is a man that is happy.” Works like a charm!
Wrapping Up
All in all, I had a blast playing with Sable WWF today. It’s a neat tool for anyone interested in natural language processing or formal logic. The process of setting it up and trying different things was pretty straightforward. Definitely worth checking out if you’re into this kind of stuff!
