On 10/01/2008, Benjamin Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Processing a dictionary in a useful way > requires quite sophisticated language understanding ability, though. > > Once you can do that, the hard part of the problem is already > solved ;-)
While this kind of system requires sophisticated language understanding ability, I don't think that sophisticated language understanding ability implies the ability to use the dictionary... So you have to be careful to create a system with both abilities. For example a language understanding system focussed on understanding sophisticated sentences about the world external to itself does need not be able to add to the syntactical rules. Which would make those systems a lot slower at learning language when they get to that language understanding ability. I'll be a lot more interested when people start creating NLP systems that are syntactically and semantically processing statements about words, sentences and other linguistic structures and adding syntactic and semantic rules based on those sentences. I think it is a thorny problem and needs to be dealt with in a creative way, but I would be interested to be proved wrong. What sort of age of human do you think is capable of this kind of linguistic rule acquisition? I'd guess when kids start asking questions like, "What is that called?" or "What does that word mean?". If not before. Will Pearson ----- 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=84161407-3219d5
