Russ Hurlbut gave us the links to these articles: The minimalist grammar of action ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3223786/ ) > > The repertoire of human actions is infinite, starting from the simplest > intentional body movements such as stretching a leg to creative dancing > routines, to interaction with tools and objects such as grasping a knife, to > even more complex series of actions that formulate events, such as preparing > a salad or cleaning the house. Uncovering the structure of action has been a > quest in many disciplines, including cognitive science and artificial > intelligence.
Lexical knowledge without a lexicon? ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3209550/ ) > > All of this has led to a sea change, resulting in the view of the mental > lexicon as a data structure of tremendous richness and detail. And this, I > want to propose, should begin to raise some worries. How much detail ought to > go in the lexicon? Is there a principled way to adjudicate between > information that belongs in the lexicon and information that belongs > elsewhere? --- I started reading the second article and it was very interesting. However, I have read things like it before and they were very influential in my thinking about AGI. It takes a knowledge about a great many simple things to understand one simple thing. So the interpretation of a sentence is based on a great deal of knowledge about many simple ideas that can be related to that particular sentence. It includes syntactic knowledge, semantic knowledge and grammatical knowledge which might be seen as a bridge between syntactic and semantic knowledge. So that article was impressive just because it was such a scholarly article with lots of interesting resources. But these ideas about the factors that can shape the way we interpret sentences are not new since 1990, they have just been researched more thoroughly. Jim Bromer ------------------------------------------- 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
