On Wednesday 20 February 2008 02:58:54 pm, Ben Goertzel wrote:
> I note also that a web-surfing AGI could resolve the color of the moon
> quite easily by analyzing online pictures -- though this isn't pure
> text mining, it's in the same spirit...
Ummmm -- I just typed "moon" into google and at the top of the page it gives
three pictures. Two are thin sliver crescents. The third, of a full moon, is
distinctly blue.
> There seems to be an assumption in this thread that NLP analysis
> of text is restricted to simple statistical extraction of word-sequences...
I certainly make no such assumption. I offered the stats to point out the kind
of traps that lie in wait for the hapless text-miner.
As I am sure you are fully aware, you can't parse English without a knowledge
of the meanings involved. ("The council opposed the demonstrators because
they (feared/advocated) violence.") So how are you going to learn meanings
before you can parse, or how are you going to parse before you learn
meanings? They have to be interleaved in a non-trivial way.
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