On 10/31/07, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- 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.

Depends what you want to do.  If you want to make a kick-ass data
retrieval system, it might work out pretty well.

> Natural language is a fundamental part of the knowledge
> base, not something you can add on later.

It was added on later in humans, in evolution; and probably is in ontogeny, too.

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