Re: [agi] The concept of a KBMS

2006-11-09 Thread John Scanlon
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 5:04 PM Subject: Re: [agi] The concept of a KBMS Richard Loosemore wrote: When you say that it provides ... a general AI shell, within which any AI algorithms can be experimented with ..., I find myself exasperated [tho' not to worry, I am exasperated a lot

Re: [agi] The concept of a KBMS

2006-11-08 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
On 11/7/06, James Ratcliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yan, Do you have a version of the book layout that is all on one page, or PDF or anything? I would like ot print the whole thing off and look over it in more detail. Also lots of broken links, run a link checker, the GO link on the front

Re: [agi] The concept of a KBMS

2006-11-07 Thread James Ratcliff
Many of these examples actually arnt hard, if you use some statitisical information and common sense knowledge base.Matt Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message From: YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: agi@v2.listbox.comSent: Monday, November 6, 2006 7:49:06 PMSubject: Re:

Re: [agi] The concept of a KBMS

2006-11-07 Thread James Ratcliff
YKY, This looks good in general, it is similar to what I am doing as well.How far have you gotten on the parser though? It is not easy unfortunatly, though I will test how easy it is soon at least on simple sentences. For complex sentences it is imposible. I am saving my forms directly into a

Re: [agi] The concept of a KBMS

2006-11-07 Thread James Ratcliff
Yan, Do you have a version of the "book" layout that is all on one page, or PDF or anything? I would like ot print the whole thing off and look over it in more detail.Also lots of broken links, run a link checker, the GO link on the front page doesnt work.James Ratcliff"YKY (Yan King Yin)" [EMAIL

Re: [agi] The concept of a KBMS

2006-11-07 Thread John Scanlon
5:04 PM Subject: Re: [agi] The concept of a KBMS Richard Loosemore wrote: When you say that it provides ... a general AI shell, within which any AI algorithms can be experimented with ..., I find myself exasperated [tho' not to worry, I am exasperated a lot ;-) ] -- it does not provide

Re: [agi] The concept of a KBMS

2006-11-07 Thread John Scanlon
YKY, I looked at your language, and it makessense. It seems that a lot of us are working on this same problem of developing a good interface language for an AI system. As far as a demo of how my Gnoljinn server processes statements in Jinnteera,this is what it does this right now: it

Re: [agi] The concept of a KBMS

2006-11-07 Thread Richard Loosemore
question. Richard Loosemore. - Original Message - From: John Scanlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 5:04 PM Subject: Re: [agi] The concept of a KBMS Richard Loosemore wrote: When you say that it provides ... a general AI shell, within

[agi] The concept of a KBMS

2006-11-06 Thread John Scanlon
James Ratcliff wrote: "In some form or another we are going to HAVE to have a natural language interface, either a translation program that can convert our english to the machine understandable form, or a simplified form of english that is trivial for a person to quickly understand and

[agi] The concept of a KBMS

2006-11-06 Thread John Scanlon
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Re: [agi] The concept of a KBMS

2006-11-06 Thread Richard Loosemore
John Scanlon wrote: James Ratcliff wrote: In some form or another we are going to HAVE to have a natural language interface, either a translation program that can convert our english to the machine understandable form, or a simplified form of english that is trivial for a person to quickly

Re: [agi] The concept of a KBMS

2006-11-06 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
On 11/7/06, John Scanlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Ratcliff wrote: In some form or another we are going to HAVE to have a natural language interface, either a translation program that can convert our english to the machine understandable form, or a simplified form of english that is

Re: [agi] The concept of a KBMS

2006-11-06 Thread James Ratcliff
This has been worked on before, yes, and is what I am looking at currently, and would be greatly interested in seeing your work.I actually created a wiki stubb the other day with a couple of teh first papers I had seen:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_simplificationText Simplification is an

Re: [agi] The concept of a KBMS

2006-11-06 Thread John Scanlon
Richard Loosemore wrote: When you say that it provides ... a general AI shell, within which any AI algorithms can be experimented with ..., I find myself exasperated [tho' not to worry, I am exasperated a lot ;-) ] -- it does not provide a language shell within which *any* of the algorithms

Re: [agi] The concept of a KBMS

2006-11-06 Thread John Scanlon
Sorry, I completely ignored what you said about your language in my reply. Could you describe it some more? YKY wrote: I'm working on something very similar to Jinnteera; my language is called Geniform and is half-way between English and an augmented form of predicate logic. I'd say it

Re: [agi] The concept of a KBMS

2006-11-06 Thread YKY (Yan King Yin)
Hi John, This is the specification of my logic: http://www.geocities.com/genericai/GI-Geniform.htm I conjecture thatNL sentences can be easilytranslated to/fromthis form. The definition of Jinnteera looks interesting, do you have a demo of how it works? =) I'm now working on a

Re: [agi] The concept of a KBMS

2006-11-06 Thread Matt Mahoney
- Original Message From: YKY (Yan King Yin) [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: agi@v2.listbox.comSent: Monday, November 6, 2006 7:49:06 PMSubject: Re: [agi] The concept of a KBMSThis is the specification of my logic: http://www.geocities.com/genericai/GI-Geniform.htm I conjecture thatNL sentences can be