Hi all, As you doubtless recall, I submitted a patent a few months ago on a faster parsing method. Being of Medicare age, the USPTO is QUICKLY processing my application, and has already OK'd 4 of my claims with minor corrections. In considering other claims, they countered with a 1992 article by Hobbs, et al, that was off point. However, the Hobbs article contained some interesting statements that I thought might stimulate discussion here:
*The problem of syntactic ambiguity is AI-complete. That is, we will not have systems that reliably parse English sentences correctly until we have encoded much of the real-world knowledge that people bring to bear in their language comprehension.* Hobbs then goes on to utilize this as justification for constructing his ad hoc parsing method consisting of several passes, complete with a variety of recognized weaknesses that he accepts as being unavoidable given the difficulty of the problem, which seems to also be the general direction of people here. Another quote from Hobbs: *Q: What is the difference between computer science and artificial intelligence?* *A: In computer science you write programs to do quickly what people do slowly. In artificial intelligence, it is just the opposite.* Hobbs then goes on to argue that his approach is computer science rather than AI. Hobbs wrote several articles that were largely copied one to the next, so you can search via Google on the above quotes to find them. Any thoughts? 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
