On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> >> Personally, rather than starting with NLP, I think that we're going to >> need to start with a formal language that is a disambiguated subset of >> English > > IMHO that is an almost hopeless approach, ambiguity is too integral to > English or any natural language ... e.g preposition ambiguity > > If you want to take this sort of approach, you'd better start with Lojban > instead.... Learning Lojban is a pain but far less pain than you'll have > trying to make a disambiguated subset of English. >
It looks like all this "disambiguation" by moving to a more formal language is about sweeping the problem under the rug, removing the need for uncertain reasoning from surface levels of syntax and semantics, to remember about it 10 years later, retouch the most annoying holes with simple statistical techniques, and continue as before. -- Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://causalityrelay.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------- 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
