James Ratcliff wrote:
Not necessarily childrens language, as tehy have their own problems and
often use the wrong words and rules of grammar, but a simplified
english, a reduced rule set.
Something like no compound sentences for a start. I believe most
everything can be written without compound sentences, and that would
greatly reduce the processing complexity,
and anaphora resolution as a part of the language rules, so if you
reference something in one place it will stay the same throughout the
section.
Its not quite as natural, but could be understood simply enough by
humans as well as computers.
One problem I have with all of this, is the super-flowery writing styles
of cramming as many words and complex topics all into one sentence.
This is a question directed at this whole thread, about simplifying
language to communicate with an AI system, so we can at least get
something working, and then go from there....
This rationale is the very same rationale that drove researchers into
Blocks World programs. Winograd and SHRDLU, etc. It was a mistake
then: it is surely just as much of a mistake now.
Richard Loosemore.
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