--- On Thu, 10/16/08, Trent Waddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Matt Mahoney > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Natural language is poorly understood, which is > > exactly why we need to study it. > > I don't disagree, but I think a lot of NLP is done in > isolation, with > no regard to semantics.. so you get a neat little parsing > algorithm > but don't really learn anything about what natural > language is *for*.
Well, that's true. Most of the successful language models (e.g. search engines) focus on semantics rather than grammar. Children learn semantics first. Natural language is not like formal languages like C++ or Cycl. In a formal language, you have to parse it before you can understand it. In natural language, you have to understand it before you can parse it. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
