Ben, I would agree with an even stronger version of your statement: Treating word senses as fuzzy, cluster type categories in the context of usage-instances is the only cognitively plausible method for AGI to comprehend and produce them. -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: Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:37:40 PM Subject: Re: [agi] Microsoft Launches Singularity It's true, a "word sense" is not a crisp thing like a part-of-speech ... it's more of a cluster among usage-instances... Yet, this kind of fuzzy, cluster-type category does play an important role in cognition, no? ben g ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=98558129-0bdb63 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
