Granted that from a logical viewpoint, using a controlled English syntax to acquire rules is as much work as explicitly encoding the rules. However, a suitable, engaging, bootstrap dialog system may permit a multitude of non-expert users to add the rules, thus dramatically reducing the amount of programmatic encoding, and the duration of the effort. That is my hypothesis and plan. -Steve
Stephen L. Reed Artificial Intelligence Researcher http://texai.org/blog http://texai.org 3008 Oak Crest Ave. Austin, Texas, USA 78704 512.791.7860 ----- Original Message ---- From: Benjamin Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:06:45 AM Subject: Re: [agi] Incremental Fluid Construction Grammar released On Jan 10, 2008 10:26 AM, William Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/01/2008, Benjamin Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'll be a lot more interested when people start creating NLP systems > > > that are syntactically and semantically processing statements *about* > > > words, sentences and other linguistic structures and adding syntactic > > > and semantic rules based on those sentences. > > Note the new emphasis ;-) You example didn't have statements *about* > words, but new rules were inferred from word usage. Well, here's the thing. Dictionary text and English-grammar-textbook text are highly ambiguous and complex English... so you'll need a very sophisticated NLP system to be able to grok them... OTOH, you could fairly easily define a limited, controlled syntax encompassing a variety of statements about words, sentences and other linguistic structures, and then make a system add syntactic and semantic rules based on these sentences. But I don't see what the point would be, because telling the system stuff in the controlled syntax would be basically as much work as explicitly encoding the rules... -- 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/?&; ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ----- 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=84345323-0b6cb1
