Hi Mark,
Preposition disambiguation is "badly unsolved" because (I believe) it requires domain knowledge to do effectively and people are trying to do it without domain knowledge. The same is true of reference resolution. I think that these things are eminently soluble once you have the domain knowledge wired in (and I think that you can bootstrap enough of the domain knowledge with the simple stupid parser, active search, and inheritance).
The above is really your meaty hypothesis, I'd say... You may be right, but my feeling is that it will work more reliably to start off with the ONE domain of embodied interaction w/ a 3D world, and get the system to have knowledge of this domain via interacting with it. Then, with this knowledge and the ability to generalize/analogize/etc., the bootstrapping process you mention will more more feasible for extending the system's understanding into other domains. -- Ben ----- 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/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
