In addition to Schank and the Yale School, be sure to look at Roland Hausser and Database Semantics as well. ~PM
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:20:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [agi] Re: Superficiality Produces Misunderstanding - Not Good Enough From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Aaron Hosford wrote: I get the impression that you're saying (both here & in your previous emails on Algorithmic Synthesis) that claiming two things are associated isn't enough -- that the *kind* of association is important too. -Yes I do feel that way although I probably wasn't thinking of that when I wrote my message. An association may belong to many categories of a *kind*. This is important because we can usually abstract or generalize from an 'idea' or 'ideas' in many different ways and these different 'kinds' of abstractions are things that can become concepts of their own (referring to the nature of the abstraction). Aaron Hosford wrote:Roger Schank has provided quite a bit of inspiration to me, based on how he represents meaning as semantic links connecting basic concepts together. From the natural language perspective, it is relatively easy to see how this can be implemented. I'm not alone in having successfully built a parser that extracts a semantic network from a sentence which represents that sentence's meaning with a fair degree of accuracy. -I really liked Schank's work as well. I think that old world semantic networks simplified the potential for meaning too much. So while you might get closer to a single constrained meaning of a sentence, you would also lose many of the undertones, highlights and colors of the sentence that can help to make the sentence meaningful. So here it is again, it is not enough to take the shallow level of meaning that might be derived from a tightly constraining analysis of the superficial sentence. You have to be looking for other kinds of meanings to see if the words of the sentence (or 'ideas' of the sentences) can be better interpreted in other ways. I will have more to say about this. Jim Bromer ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
