While programming my bootstrap English dialog system, I needed a spreading
activation library for the purpose of enriching the discourse context with
conceptually related terms. For example given that there is a human-habitable
room that both speakers know of, then it is reasonable to assume
Hi Stephen,
I think this approach makes sense.
In Novamente/OpenCog, we don't use spreading activation, but we use an
economic attention allocation mechanism that is similar in spirit
(though subtly
different in dynamics).
The motivation is similar: You just can't use complex, abstract
