Will, Affixes are morphological constructions and my system could have rules to handle them. I plan eventually to include such rules for combinations that are new. However the Texai lexicon will explicitly represent all common word forms and multi-word phrases that would otherwise be covered by rules in order to accommodate exceptions. My goal is precise understanding and generation, and that goal is guided by the desire to be cognitively plausible, (i.e. do as humans do). I believe that the human mental lexicon caches morphological rules in the projected word forms paired with their semantics, and invokes these rules only when comprehending a new or uncommon combination.
-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: William Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:26:27 AM > Subject: Re: [agi] Incremental Fluid Construction Grammar released > > On 10/01/2008, Benjamin Goertzel wrote: > > > 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. > > Note the new emphasis ;-) You example didn't have statements *about* > words, but new rules were inferred from word usage. > > > Depending on exactly what you mean by this, it's not a very far-off > > thing, and there probably are systems that do this in various ways. > > What I mean by it, is systems that can learn from lessons like > the > following > > http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/PC_prefix2.htm > > I could easily whip up something very narrow which didn't do too > poorly for prefixes (involving regular expressions transforming the > words). But it would be horribly brittle and specific only to prefixes > and would "know" what prefixes were before hand. > > And your, "I be," example made me think of pirates rather than ebonics > :). It is also not what I am looking for, because it relies on the > system looking for regularities, rather than being explicitly told > about them. The benefits of being able to be told there are > regularities mean that you do not always have to be looking out for > them, saving processing time and memory for other more important > tasks. > > Will > > ----- > 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/?&; > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ----- 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=84234687-a4ff52
