Łukasz wrote: Perhaps you could get some linguist to capitalize on your work with a publication?
Coincidentally, my abstract for the Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar has been accepted for presentation at its poster session this September. Because the conference this year is to be held in Austin, I can easily attend. My work on Construction Grammar has been previously discussed with Dr. Hans Boas at UT Austin, Dr. Jerry Ball, while attending the 2007 AAAI Fall Symposium, and with the technical staff at Cycorp in Austin which included two Ph.D computational linguists. Here is a link to the brief abstract. I hope that a successful demonstration of the Texai bootstrap English dialog system, sometime this year, will draw attention to construction grammar for natural language processing when semantics are the focus of the application. Likewise I hope to release an open source version of the Double R Grammar that has a good coverate of English. Reaching out to linguists, I already released on SourceForge what I believe is the world's largest freely available, open-source lexicon, derived from WordNet 2.1, Wiktionary, The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary and the OpenCyc lexicon. I announced this on the Linguists List. Cheers, -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: Lukasz Stafiniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 2:11:31 PM Subject: Re: [agi] Between logical semantics and linguistic semantics On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Stephen Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My first solution to this problem is to postpone it by employing a > controlled English, in which such constructions will be avoided if possible. > Secondly, Jerry Ball demonstrated his solution in Double R Grammar at the > 2007 AAAI Fall Symposium, Cognitive Approaches to NLP. His slide > presentation is here, which I think fully addresses your issues. To > summarize Dr. Ball's ideas, which I will ultimately adopt for Texai: > Thanks, very interesting slides. I think he forgets to mention "Dynamic Syntax" (Ruth Kempson, Dov Gabbay). > Serial processing [word by word parsing] with algorithmic backtracking has > no hope for on-line processing in real-time in a large coverage NLP system. I think that "Double R" accomodation approach can be approximated by incremental right-to-left parsing. Something along the lines of http://www.speagram.org/wiki/Grammar/ChartParser but still needs much work (the approach was developed when I've been in "computational semantics" phase, it ignores cognitive linguistics, and is too fragmented: only categorical semantics (and agreement, by use of variables in types) are processed, with relational and referential semantics postponed to latter stages). The up side is that it can handle general Context Free Grammars. I didn't know that Microsoft uses some kind of right-to-left parsing, I thought it is my invention :-) > > I regret that some aspects of my implementation are difficult to follow > because I am using Jerry Ball's Double R Grammar, but not his ACT-R Lisp > engine, using instead my own incremental, cognitively plausible, version of > Luc Steel's Fluid Construction Grammar engine. I combined these two systems > because Jerry Ball's engine is not reversible, Luc Steel's grammar is not a > good coverage of English, and the otherwise excellent Fluid Construction > Grammar engine is not incremental. > > -Steve > Perhaps you could get some linguist to capitalize on your work with a publication? Best Regards, Łukasz ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
