On 3/2/07, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What about English? Irregular grammar is only a tiny part of the language modeling problem. Uaing an artificial language with a regular grammar to "simplify" the problem is a false path. If people actually used Logban
then
it would be used in ways not intended by the developer and it would
develop
all the warts of real languages. The real problem is to understand how
humans
learn language.
Hi, Matt =) I discovered something cool: computational pragmatics. You may take a look at Jerry R Hobbs' paper: "Interpretation as Abduction", where he has a very powerful method of interpreting NL sentences, even dealing with things like metonymy and syntactic ambiuguity, "the warts of real languages". http://www.isi.edu/~hobbs/interp-abduct-ai.pdf This seems to be the missing piece for successfully employing the logical approach to NL processing. YKY ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
