From: "Kevin Copple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> It seems to me that rout memorization is an aspect of human learning, so why > not include a variety of jokes, poems, trivia, images, and so on as part of > an AI knowledge base? In the EllaZ system we refer to these chunks of data > as Convuns (conversational units). This is an important issue. One extreme approach in AI and CogSci is to reduce the meaning of linguistic chunks (phrases, sentenses, paragraphs, and texts) into basic components (example: Schank's CD Theory, Wierzbicka's primes, and Frege's "principle of compositionality"). I think such an approach is fine for certain formal languages, but definitely not OK for some others, and especially, won't work well for any natural language. However, I feel many statistical NLP approaches are going to the other extreme, that is, to take a linguistic chunk as a whole, without analysing its semantic relation with its components. I don't think we can go very far in this direction, neither. I hope Ella dosen't fall into this category. > Ella was lucky enough to win the 2002 Loebner Prize Contest, which can be > somewhat arbitrary with the limited number of judges and limited length of > conversations. She has a number of functional features that I suspect the > engineering students selected as judges were more likely to test and > appreciate. I don't find any document about the system on the website. Is there any that you can share with us? Though I'm also interested in I Ching, your claim "The I Ching (Yi Jing), dating as far back as 2000 B.C., can be considered to be the first computational AI, and the first binary computer." is still way too strong for me to agree. ;-) > I am currently living Tianjin, China, having sold my import/export chemicals > business to a competitor. My wife, Zhang Ying, is a local girl who doesn't > care for the food in the US and doesn't like being away from her friends and > family. So, I am between jobs and working on www.EllaZ.com for the next > year or so. Tianjin is my hometown, and I'm back there every summer in the recent years. I hope you enjoy your life there. Pei > We are always on the outlook for collaborators and ideas we can "borrow" :-) > > Cheers . . . Kevin Copple > > > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
