Matt Mahoney wrote:
From: BillK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
Parsing is unsolved. Translators like Babelfish have progressed little since
the 1959
Russian-English project. Microsoft Word's grammar checker catches some mistakes
but is clearly not AI.
I think the problem will eventually be solved. There was a long period of
stagnation since the 1959 Russian-English project but I think this period
> will soon end thanks to better language models due to the recent
availability
> of large text databases, fast hardware, and cheap memory. Once we solve
> the language modeling problem, we will remove the main barrier to
many NLP
> problems such as speech recognition, translation, OCR, handwriting
> recognition, and question answering.
Sorry, but IMO large databases, fast hardware, and cheap memory ain't
got nothing to do with it.
Anyone who doubts this get a copy of Pim Levelt's "Speaking", read and
digest the whole thing, and then meditate on the fact that that book is
a mere scratch on the surface (IMO a scratch in the wrong direction,
too, but that's neither here nor there).
I saw a recent talk about an NLP system which left me stupified that so
little progress has been made since 20 years ago.
Having a clue about just what a complex thing intelligence is, has
everything to do with it.
Richard Loosemore
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