"YKY (Yan King Yin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/18/07, James Ratcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark, > This is the closest Ive seen so far to my work and what I believe in, Have > you got some more specific information / code / algorithm / papers on > gathering and processing world information and discovery of? > I have been working with text processing and getting a bot to "read" and > process books/ newspapers as a main method of learning.
Hi James, Mark, I'd be very interested in collaborating on this kind of project (knowledge harvesting). My thinking is that it is best done via collecting simple facts / rules from humans (using natural language eg Basic English), rather than from books or the web. Much of commonsense knowledge is not explicitly stated in books or other reading materials for adults. Also, many logical rules would have to be inductively learned while the machine is doing the reading. It seems much easier to simply ask humans to encode the facts / rules. What are your thoughts about this? YKY Couple different things there, while nowhere near everything can be scraped easily out of books, many things can, and really pretty simply. I can scan through the books and tell you that you are likely to find shoes and coathangers in a closet... now thats a little things, but pretty cool to come up with just by scanning the books. I think the knowledge shoudl be gathered from humans, but I dont want it randomly entered like in OMCS, I was thinking more along the lines of the computer reads the story, presents the story (from a novel or etc) to the user, and then talks about the story with the user, asking questions to the user, and the user sugesting things to the AI. Then adding on top of that a Wiki style ability for many many users to look at the story and correct change modify and suggest, with a "trusted" user system giving users with higher scores more weight in the system. English is the main ability to interact with the AI, but I think giving a very simple graphical representation would be useful as well. _______________________________________ James Ratcliff - http://falazar.com Looking for something... --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
