On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:01:42AM -0700, Charles D Hixson wrote: > To me this point seems only partially valid. 1M hand coded rules seems > excessive, but there should be some number (100? 1000?) of hand-coded > rules (not unchangeable!) that it can start from. An absolute minimum > would seem to be "everything in 'Fun with Dick and Jane' through 'My > Little White House'". That's probably not sufficient, but you need to > at least cover those patterns. Most (though not all) of the later > patterns are, or can be, built out of the earlier ones via miscellaneous > forms of composition and elision. This gives context within which other > patterns can be learned. > > Note that this is extremely much simpler that starting your learning > from a clean slate.
Yes, exactly. A clean slate is a very hard place to start. And so, yes, this is my current philosophy: build enough scaffolding to be able to pump some yet-to-be-determined more general mechanism. --linas ----- 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=60484906-1b585e
