--- Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aside from Novamente and CYC, who else has attempted to staple > NLP to a reasoning engine?
Many have tried, such as BASEBALL in 1961 [1] and SHRDLU in 1968-70 [2]. But you might as well try stapling jello. Natural language evolved on a computer far more powerful than the one in front of you now. In spite of superficial similarities to artificial languages that use context free grammars, its structure is fundamentally different. A natural language model requires the parallel evaluation of hundreds of thousands of weak constraints learned from years of experience. Natural language is a fundamental part of the knowledge base, not something you can add on later. References 1. Green, Bert F. Jr., Alice K. Wolf, Carol Chomsky, and Kenneth Laughery (1961), Baseball: An Automatic Question Answerer, Proceedings of the Western Joint Computer Conference, 19:219-224. 2. http://hci.stanford.edu/~winograd/shrdlu/ -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- 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=8660244&id_secret=59720772-e8ccde
