NSMnum
NSM was a name in linguistics long before I gave it to a kind of model.
Since the 1980s, Anna Wierzbicka and Cliff Goddard have called their theory of meaning the Natural Semantic Metalanguage, NSM for short. It looks for the meanings every language shares, which they call semantic primes, and they now count 65.
On 13 November I gave a name to the models in ungli, my method for using AI in which no model writes a word. I called them NSMs, for Narrow Small Models, and did not check whether the letters were taken.
The full name stays. The short form is now NSMnum.
Its plural is the same word: one NSMnum, three NSMnum, never NSMnums. Said aloud, it is en-ess-em-num (एन-एस-एम-नम): the letters N, S and M, then num as in number, for one or many.
The num stands for number. Whatever an NSMnum is asked, it gives back the number of a passage in the text it was given, the number of an item on a list someone wrote beforehand, or nothing. Code acts on the number.
Before settling on it, I searched for each version I tried, to see whether anyone already uses it as a name.
NSMN is a sports marketing network, NSMV a class of training ship for American maritime academies, NSMK the National Science Museum of Korea and NSMI a sports medicine institute. NSMidX is a function in Apple’s code that finds the middle of a rectangle. NSMnum, for now, is nobody’s.
The method:
https://github.com/koherarchitecture/ungli
The builder:
https://ungli.syntax.prayasabhinav.net
The syntax it is built on: