Bob, You can just look up the phrase "doubled over" in a dictionary (wordnet) and find that it means to curl up in pain, but what does curling mean, and what is pain?
Once the most basic English grammar constructions are hand-coded, I plan that Texai learn, by being taught, the constructions required for it to comprehend the word sense glosses (i.e. definitions) from WordNet and Wiktionary. By converting this definitional text into crisp, symbolic logic statements, Texai will acquire a degree of commonsense understanding about the defined concepts. I am postponing grounding most of these concepts in physical perceptions. Initially, the only fully grounded symbols will be those involved with English grammar constructions and vocabulary. That is, Texai will have a grounded perception of what an utterance is, because it can directly sense one and it can generate one. It will likewise have a grounded notion of its mentors. It will be able to sense what each one says to it, and to influence their belief state by what it says. It might be considered circular and shallow to define the various dictionary words in terms of each other. But this will be sufficient for question answering - e.g. better than an existing search engine on the same corpus. And I expect that it will be sufficient for the really important step to soon follow - the acquisition of skills by being taught them. 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: Bob Mottram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 2:23:19 AM Subject: Re: [agi] Why Symbolic Representation P.S. 2008/4/24 Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just to illustrate further, here's the opening lines of today's Times > sports report on a football match.[Liverpool v Chelsea] How on earth could > this be understood without massive imaginative simulation? [Stephen?] And > without mainly imaginative memories of football matches? I think this is right, and that to be able to really understand written text also requires reference to pre-linguistic concepts which typically come from embodied experiences either gained in person or vicariously by observation of others (through mirror systems). You can just look up the phrase "doubled over" in a dictionary (wordnet) and find that it means to curl up in pain, but what does curling mean, and what is pain? ------------------------------------------- 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/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------------------- 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=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
