On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 12:56:14PM -0700, Matt Mahoney wrote:
> --- Jiri Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Oct 31, 2007 8:53 PM, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Natural language is a fundamental part of the knowledge
> > base, not something you can add on later.
> > 
> > I disagree. You can start with a KB that contains concepts retrieved
> > from a well structured non-NL input format only, get the thinking
> > algorithms working and then (possibly much later) let the system to
> > focus on NL analysis/understanding or build some
> > NL-to-the_structured_format translation tools.
> 
> Well, good luck with that.  Are you aware of how many thousands of times this
> approach has been tried?  You are wading into a swamp.  Progress will be rapid
> at first.

Yes, and in the first email I wrote, that started this thread, I stated,
more or less: "yes, I am aware that many have tried, and that its a
swamp, and can anyone elucidate why?"  And, so far, no one as been able
to answer that question, even as they firmly assert that surely it is a
swamp. Nor has anyone attempted to posit any mechanisms that avoid that
swamp, other than thought bubbles that state things like "starting from
a clean slate, my system will be magic".

--linas

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