There is also the NELL project which is already in flight.  
http://rtw.ml.cmu.edu/rtw/
 http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/computing/2010/fall/nell-computer-that-learns.shtml
It's aim is to read the web.  
ALL of it.
How would your parsing approach be different from, enhance, or make obsolete 
the Never Ending Language Learning (NELL) system?
Just curious? 
~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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