Hi Ben, Thanks for responding... I was hoping to get involved with the eva-chatbot, in particular, because I'd taken the time to really study it a while back. It also seemed like an important piece that would give me a very holistic hands-on experience using the opencog framework.
But if the above isn't that important in the grand scheme of things, then no matter. I can work on something else. I am generally okay mucking around on backend code (having worked in JAVA for some years now). I'm not sure how I should describe my strengths as a programmer are: I'm quite new to both C++ or Scheme, but I'm not really intimidated by that. I think (as you may agree) that the real challenges exist really much deeper... Some months back, I did some solid reading on the PLN book, and that was very interesting! My chief interests at this moment would really be at any intersection between NLP and PLN. That's where I believe I could be most excited in for the near future. I don't know if I could take the lead-charge on any front though, and ideally my role would be one of support (tests, bug-fixes etc) for some relevant branch for a little while. I work full time as a developer currently, and some nights my brain's a little washed out :) Anyways, let me know... On Saturday, January 14, 2017 at 10:49:22 PM UTC-5, Ben Goertzel wrote: > > Hi, > > > - Is "Relex2Logic" is still an actively used step in the opencog<->nlp > > pipeline? This is a little over my head... but I could've sworn I read > > somewhere that the usage of Relex2Logic is now deprecated. However, the > NLP > > presentation given on May 2016 Cog'athon still mentioned about using > > 'Relex2Logic' for the entire process. The eva-chatbot seems to include > bits > > and pieces from a relex2logic module as well. > > We are using RelEx2Logic. There is a plan to replace it as follows > > http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Link_Parse_to_Logic_via_Lojban > > and this is actively being worked on but it's early-stage and I don't > expect this alternative to be usable till early fall... > > > - How can I help ? I've spent the last couple of months observing > opencog > > from as many angles as I can, but I guess there's no substitute to > getting > > hands-on. > > There are many many ways you could help. Which aspects fascinate > you most? And what are your strengths as a programmer? Are you able > to dive in and muck with someone else's hairy C++ code, or would you > rather deal mainly w/ the Scheme shell? > > There are aspects that need help related to NLP and to PLN reasoning, > and to pattern mining, for example... and then there's an initiative > to integrate deep learning vision w/ OpenCog ... all these could be > reasonable areas to plunge in... > > > >I think something like an online weekly meeting would be a great > > way to share information, problems, tasks et.c.... if someone else was > > interested. Would that be feasible? > > Could well be worth a try, but if I'm going to organize it, it will > need to wait till Feb, I'm traveling the next couple weeks and don't > want to deal with additional scheduled events... > > -- Ben > > > > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > “I tell my students, when you go to these meetings, see what direction > everyone is headed, so you can go in the opposite direction. Don’t > polish the brass on the bandwagon.” – V. S. Ramachandran > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/58c3c473-df1f-4f71-9e2c-b11b8615f858%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
