Hi all, Has my previous posting made my implied point to everyone's satisfaction, that without my new parsing method, that there is NO presently known or suspected approach to parsing full-blown English fast enough to be practical, for at least another decade or two?
Hence, there seems to be no useful purpose in anyone wasting their time building yet another ad hoc or table-driven parser that doesn't use my method, beyond proving my point with yet another failed NLP project. Things I am **NOT** saying include: 1. That more breakthroughs aren't necessary to achieve "understanding", though it is my gut feeling that present-day parsing technology would be adequate for most use, given another 3-4 orders of magnitude in both speed and rules count. 2. That this is easy. On the contrary, I suspect that ~1 man-decade of linguistic rules building would be needed. This would be needed regardless of the approach used, so this is NOT a disadvantage of my approach. Of course, this would take one person a decade of hard work to complete, but could be completed by an organized team in a year or two. So, is anyone (else) here interested in some sort of team effort to make this happen? Once completed, we already understand that this may be the most valuable software on the planet. If we can't get a critical mass going on this, then there would seem to be little reason to continue this forum for the next decade or two, beyond maybe discussing pie-in-the-sky plans for what might be done decades in the future, using presently unknown technologies, which would better be posted on the singularity forum and NOT here on the AGI forum. Am I missing anything here? Any interest? Steve ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
