--- Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 02:58:07PM -0700, Matt Mahoney wrote: > > There is a great temptation to insert knowledge directly, > > but the result is always the same. Natural language is a complicated > beast. > > You cannot hand code all the language rules. After 23 years of developing > the > > Cyc database, Doug Lenat guesses it is between 0.1% and 10% finished. > > And hasn't stopped trying. We also have Wordnet, and assorted ontology > projects.
If you devoted most of your life to a single project, you would not give up easily either. > How many sentence parse patterns are there? 10K? 100K? 1M? The fact that we don't know is a bad thing. My guess is well over 1M. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- 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=60173481-66a538
