CCG is fairly straightforwardly mappable into link grammar; and our "statistical" approach is based on using unsupervised pattern mining (in a particular complex way) to induce a link grammar for a language...
So we (i.e. Linas and I especially) basically agree with CCG as a formalism, but we want learned not hand-coded grammar rules... Also, the hand-coded link grammar dictionary is simply much bigger and better than any existing CCG dictionary.... Someone could write a script to transform it into a (complicated and ugly) CCG if they wanted... -- Ben G On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Alex <[email protected]> wrote: > Probably offtopic - while I am reading about OpenCog community efforts in > NLP, I am quite suspicious about statistical methods. I think that the only > meaningful approach to the NLP ir the combinatory categorial grammars > (Lambek calculus, Montague semantics) and this effort tries to translate > natural language sentences into logical expressions - lambda calculus > expressions. So - if there is connection between Schema as a language of > lambda calculus, then CCGs are the way of translating NL sentences directly > into Scheme structures. Besides CCGs approach uses white box approach and > understanding for the semantics of natural language, these semantical > knowledge can also be encoded as the Scheme/OpenCog structures and can be > learned of enhanced by time. > > Of course, raw statistical approach in the end can give the same results, > but structured approach can be more feasible. Besides - statistical approach > yields results that are worth all or nothing. But CCG approach yields > results that are improving step by step and such improving understanding > reflects the human approach to the world and language - humans progresively > learns language, its syntax and semantics. I we have the slightest doubts > about existence of the perfect understanding of the language then we should > also must have doubts about efficiency of the statistical approach. > > -- > 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/393b88c8-aadd-456c-bd84-eaac92b55fd8%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak." -- Alexander Scriabin -- 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/CACYTDBf38gt-tcuY9EQ7q3TtkLSUMKs%2B3PPH3rEH7FDDn%2BRmCg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
