On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves > Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; > All mimsy were the borogoves, > And the mome raths outgrabe.
An excellent illustration of grammar learning. I can use context to learn that "tove" is a noun, "mimsy" is an adjective, etc. Is this going to be part of the language learning algorithm? My point is not that grammar isn't important. My point is that parsing should not be the first step. The first step is to identify the semantic units (words and suffixes). The second step is to learn their meanings (associations with words and possibly non-verbal grounding). Most of the meaning of a sentence is the sum of the meanings of its words. Word order and grammar plays a lesser role, but we can't ignore it entirely. I realize that "Alice hit Bob" is not the same as "Bob hit Alice". But I think the most important role of grammar is error correction. How does the link grammar parse the following? "I saw the star with the telescope" "I saw the star with the hat" "I saw the star with Bob" How does it handle spelling errors? -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
