Frustrated and satisfied at the same time

Why do I have the two feeling at the same time? It's because I just got some time to start working on my NLP research more seriously. Now I switch to focus on Thai language instead because it's my native and I think if what I discover turns out to be useful, it would be harder to find competition because there are hugely more people who do NLP research in English than Thai.

Anyhow, I'm satisfied because now I got to use Haskell and I find that it's a very powerful language. I could defy many rules for parsing Thai string in just not so many lines. Also the parsec library is so so helpful and very customization. This is one of many indispensable Haskell libraries. I am so satisfied with what I learned from using the language and library.

However, I am so frustrated with the Thai Characters Clustering (TCC) rules I found on the Internet. After running them in my head against just a few test words, I couldn't really see how they would do what the authors advertised for. I just wrote an email to one of the authors but not sure I would get a reply because I did it once to another author but nothing comes back to my mail box. Let's see if this time doesn't work, I am going to roll out my own research and come up with my own rules instead.