The idea of a linguistic reference marker language seems kind of interesting. Someone in these groups have pointed out that there are artificial languages in which anaphoric-like references may be defined, and anyone could do that by denoting those kinds of connective relations by using some meta-notation. However, my idea of the artificial reference marker language does go a step further in that it would allow for definitions of linguistic markers by type and other possible abstractions that could be defined with other levels of referential relations. This definition with types does sound like a programming language but I believe I can take it a step higher in that it can be used to create run time dilemmas some of which should be resolvable while the program is running so long as the basis of the defined relations are not too poorly constructed. This could feasibly turn out to be a highly controllable testing program that has a rich potential of expression and which could detail some of the problems that need to be solved in this field.
Right now I am thinking about a system which would simultaneously run the reference marker language as a meta-language or a paralanguage to a text-based natural language. By keeping the language simple the test might be run by creating the needed linguistic markers (like anaphoric-like connectors) as they are needed. So months or years of learning might be avoided to prepare for a test run. And abstractions or generalizations might be denoted by groups of examples or by categorical denotations. There have been many attempts to use formal linguistics in AI and they have not generated overwhelming evidence that the method is the best route to AGI. However, my theory is that most professional linguistic AI models are overly reliant on generalizations that are too broad and are too simple. I believe that true intelligence must be supplied with a rich set of possibilities and that old AI linguistic models have not provided the programs with those possibilities. But, a rich set of generalizations probably would overwhelm an AGI program with too much complexity. By using the linguistic reference marker language some of that complexity could be studied in a controlled environment using relatively simple examples. For example, (an abstract example), if there are many possible reference marker systems (that were previously 'learned' or defined) then the program would have to choose which of them would be appropriate for a particular context. These possibilities would not all be competitive selections, and in most all cases many possible reference relational systems would have to be used to understand the sentence properly. So then, part of the problem is that the program would need to know when it had interpreted the sentence well and that it should stop looking for other possible referential relations for the sentence. At this point I have no idea how I would program a computer to decide something like this. But, by using this specialized test facility, I could gain a lot of experience by relying on my intuition to decide when the program had come up with an interpretation that was good enough at that time. Another simple abstract example that I have in mind is that I could try to use natural language to point something out (about the referential relations) and if that did not work then I could use the artificial referential marker language that was running concurrently with the natural language exchanges to present it to the computer program. Then later I could see if I could use similar terms (from the natural language) to direct the computer to become aware of some referential relation in the subject discussion without needing further detailing using the referential marker language. While none of this is totally new to me it is clear that I am starting to think more definitely about some of these kinds of problems just because I am thinking about developing the referential marker language. So it seems like an interesting idea that should be useful to me. I will probably try to develop it and try it out. Some people think that this has little to do with AGI. Well similar techniques could be used to designate the referential relations between visual and other sensory data so that shows that the method is general enough. Jim Bromer ------------------------------------------- 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
