Hi Kevin, > Since wages are so low > here, even for well-educated people, I am in the process of hiring a few > people for a year or so to move our project along faster. Please let me > know if you have any leads or suggestions.
I am curious: How much does it cost, roughly, to hire a good programmer there with the ability to understand AI concepts? [Not that I plan to expand Novamente's software operations to China at the moment, I'm just curious ;) ] > Ben, one of the challenges it seems is how best to structure the Convun > database so as to maximize its use for intelligent systems. > There is likely > no clear correct approach, so we will just do our best. I will > try soon to > submit a description of where we are headed to this mailing list > and ask for > comments. I guess the important thing is to store as much data as possible, in a clearly structured way. People can always postprocess the data using their own scripts, so long as the information is there are and is clearly structured... XML or RDF type syntax is generally easy for people to work with... I would definitely want each conversational unit linked to each conversation it was embodied in -- the full conversational history... so that the context could be determined.... One of the interesting things to mine from this dataset is how people respond to context... On a different topic: If you plan to involve statistical NLP technology in the next phase of your project, that could be an interesting thing to talk about ... it's not something I'm working on now, but we played around with it a lot at Webmind Inc. ... -- Ben ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
