Re: [opencog-dev] Lojban

2020-06-30 Thread Matt Chapman
There once was a linguistic treat, It wrapped up ambiguity neat, But when AI coders called The problems it solved Were found to be quite obsolete. If you prefer prose: Lojban once may have helped address some of the gaps in machine understanding of human speech, but current speech-to-text and

Re: [opencog-dev] Fast spell checking or entity linking with bbkh

2020-06-30 Thread Linas Vepstas
Hi Amirouche, There are other, far more sophisticated ways of doing spell checking. The best way is to do context-dependent checking... and link-grammar provides extremely precise context. For example, "I gave him teh hammer" -- the LG spelling guesser offers up "the", "then", "ten" as possible

[opencog-dev] Fast spell checking or entity linking with bbkh

2020-06-30 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
This is not strictly related to opencog but might come useful if you want to use it as part of an NLP / NLU pipeline where you need to spell check and link a given text to a knowledge base. So the idea is that you have a text where they might be spelling mistakes. The easiest option would be

Re: [opencog-dev] Financial Independence or Masters? Cognitive Science or something else?

2020-06-30 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 8:40 PM Lansana Camara wrote: > I’m wasting my time doing something unimportant...the feeling that I > should be on a grander mission. > Ah hah! I also tried “leadership”, defined in two different ways: > >1. Leadership in terms of what I find myself doing from