On 4/28/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think this is the operational sense of NLP as pursued by > applying linguistic theories in narrow AI setting. (e.g. Dynamic > Syntax, DRT, HPSG, ...) but we want to apply NLP generally (i.e. not just in a narrow AI setting)
(For what it's worth, I meant the level of NLP as narrow-AI, not the level of its application. But I agree.)
> I was writing in context of Mark Waser language-specific solutions (as > I understand them), which if wished could be later reused in boarder > contexts. Actually, to convert from one language-specific version to another would be pretty trivial I believe. I think that all it would require would be tagging each word with a language, a languageA to languageB dictionary, and
No, I mean applying to other "modality" so to say, to some other kind of problem solving, not to another language: NLP shouldn't be language specific as far as the theory behind it isn't. (It is OK to restrict to English-like languages if this makes things simpler, but why limit to a particular flavor of English?)
>> In other words, although there is enough special-purpose hardware in there to >> make it make sense to call language a "module", the full capability is so >> interwoven with general cognition that it can't be separated across a >> bottleneck. I agree strongly with Josh here . . . . > We stumble here on the meaning of capacity in this context. For > example, a general GUI library is not expected to be generally > intelligent. because I don't think that a general NLP is possible without general intelligence (again, of a *very* specific level).
I think what is enough is for an NLP *module* is a flexible model of supplying contexts, so that, for example, a non-grammatical metaphorical reading could take precedence on literal grammatical reading. NLP cannot read poetry without an AGI over its shoulder. ----- 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
