Link Grammar is a certain kind of CCG. -- linas On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 6:15 AM, 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/393b88c8-aadd-456c-bd84-eaac92b55fd8%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAHrUA37HeerwAB%3D7K1XtfNph-Eub7ohOAPZsLU6w_SWLa%3D17Cg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
