On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:58:14PM -0400, Pei Wang wrote: > On 11/1/07, Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > More importantly, I've started struggling with representing > > conversational state. i.e. "what are we talking about?" "what > > has been said so far?" I've got some inkling on how to expand > > conversational state, but its ad hoc so far. > > > > Thus, I find that my interests are now turning to representing > > conversational state. How does novamente deal with it? What > > about Pei Wang's NARS? It seems that NARS is a reasoning system; > > great; but what is holding me back right now is not an ability > > to reason per-se, but the ability to maintain a conversational > > state. > > I haven't done anything concrete on NLP yet. For why NLP is treated as > an optional part of NARS and my plan for it, see > http://nars.wang.googlepages.com/wang.roadmap.pdf
Of course, right. Parse patterns will have to be stred in the system. I recently hard coded a parse tree (S who (S (VP is (NP x)))) to imply that "#$isa #$X #$Human", and was promptly corrected: "Who is Lucy?" might refer to a dog called Lucy. So I will need a way of asserting knowledge about the parse pattern "(S who (S (VP is (NP x))))" so that the system can learn how to deduce properties of X. > As for what you called "conversational state", my plan is to remember > the past conversation as "events", not as explicitly defined "states" > (as those defined in search or planning systems). Yes. Same here. The most recently asserted events probably being the most pertinent. The problem is more along the lines of "how do I know which recent events are important for maintaining the conversation?" I dunno, I'll hack my way through this. ----- 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=8660244&id_secret=60173405-87bf06
