On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 12:27:30AM -0500, Benjamin Goertzel wrote: > I'm more bullish on the creation of > knowledge-bases by mining natural language.
Yes, but early automobiles did not start themselves; they had a hand crank to get them going. I'm looking at the upper ontologies as a way to get started, provide enough knowledge so that things like reading wikipedia and learning from it are not hopelessly far away, but rather, within the realm of short-term possibility. > The problem seems to be that we don't, explicitly and declaratively, > know how our internal, intuitive knowledge bases are structured. Hmm. --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=64289955-1f1478
