Ben, I want to engage them as volunteers. The OpenMind project is a good example. Another is the game that Cycorp built: http://game.cyc.com . The bootstrap dialog system will operate using Jabber, a standard chat protocol (e.g. Google Chat), so it should easily scale and deploy to the Internet.
-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 12:16:59 PM Subject: Re: [agi] Incremental Fluid Construction Grammar released Do you plan to pay these non-experts, or recruit them as volunteers? ben On Jan 10, 2008 1:11 PM, Stephen Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 homepage. > ________________________________ > > 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/?&; ----- 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/?&; ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ----- 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=84378131-f3f84e
