Have you looked at Computation of Language (1989) by Roland Hausser? He
describes Left Associative Parsing. He also has a more recent book A
Computational Model of Natural Language Communication:
Interpretation,Inference, and Deduction in Database Semantics. (2010). Have
you reviewed it? If so, how does your method contrast with Hausser's? What are
the disadvantagesto his approach that you overcome?
Kindly advise.
~PM
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:18:22 -0700
Subject: [agi] AGI prospects for the next decade or two...
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
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
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