Hi Ben,
Can you explain why you need to have a ChineseWordNode?
A simpler solution is to use EvaluationLinks, as normal:
e.g.
EvaluatinoLink
PredicateNode "Cantonese"
ListLink
WordNode "jau mou wifi-aaa"
which has the same form as marking the tense, number, mood, etc. of the
word.
Finishing the protoatom work is not "tedious"; rather, there are a few
remaining important architectural issues that need to be decided on. They
are not simple decisions, they've got some strong pro& cons reprecussions,
which is why that work was deferred. They're decidable, but they are
"momentous".
--linas
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:16 PM, Ben Goertzel <b...@goertzel.org> wrote:
> As we embark on more seriously using Lojban within OpenCog... and
> prepare to embark on putting Chinese there ... I have realized it may
> be bad that WordNode currently is language-independent...
>
> I guess this is probably not the right design (and is a reflection of
> the fact that we've only dealt with English in the Atomspace so
> far)...
>
> A short-term hack to fix this would be to introduce e.g.
> EnglishWordNode, ChineseWordNode, etc. as subtypes of WordNode.
>
> A less annoying fix ("annoying" because the proliferation of
> hard-wired Atom types is annoying) would be to complete the ProtoAtom
> implementation (not fundamentally hard to do, just tedious), which
> would allow us to have ProtoAtoms indicating "English" and "Chinese"
> etc. and link them from WordNodes to indicate the language they
> correspond to....
>
> We should discuss moving forward on ProtoAtom during the Cogathon...
>
>
>
>
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