Mike, If I understand your question correctly it asks whether a non-expert user can be guided to use Controlled English in a dialog system. In such a system it is expected that small differences exist between the few things that the system understands and the vast number of things that the system does not understand. The differences can be morphological (e.g. spelling), or lexical (e.g. vocabulary), or syntactic (e.g. passive vs active), or semantic (e.g. word sense). Therefore my challenge is to (1) find a polite, non-boring, engaging manner to get the user to say things the way the system can understand, and (2) enable the system to understand new forms, such as what the user is trying to say but currently cannot be understood. The Texai bootstrap dialog system will be an expert system on lexical knowledge acquisition, and hopefully will swiftly grow past the very-hard-to-use stage.
This is an idea that I wanted to try at Cycorp but Doug Lenat said that it had been tried before and failed, due to great resistance among users to Controlled English. Let's see if this idea can be made to work now, or not. -Steve Stephen L. Reed Artificial Intelligence Researcher http://texai.org/blog http://texai.org 3008 Oak Crest Ave. Austin, Texas, USA 78704 512.791.7860 ----- Original Message ---- > From: Mike Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:17:43 AM > Subject: Re: [agi] Incremental Fluid Construction Grammar released > > On Jan 10, 2008 9:59 AM, Stephen Reed wrote: > > and that the system is to learn constructions for your examples. > The > below > > dialog is Controlled English, in which the system understands > and > generates > > constrained syntax and vocabulary. > > [user] The elements of a shit-list can be things. > > [texai] Now I understand that "the book is on my shit-list" > commonly > means > > that the book is an element of the group of things that you hold in > > disregard. > > If you successfully have this level of language usage from a machine, > can figure out a way to have people speak as succinctly? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ----- 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=84222463-fd342d
