On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 07:09, Smith, Todd wrote: > Natural Language processing is very hard to do > and without some breakthroughs in AI unlikely to produce the results > requested.
Yes indeed. It is now quite easy to get computers to intelligently manipulate natural language, but we are still a long, long way from getting them to really understand it. Witness Doug Lenat's Cyc project, to model all of common sense (see http://www.cyc.com and of more interest, its open source subsidiary, at http://opencyc.org ) - many hold him and his team in awe, but they have been at it for 25 years and there is still a very long way to go - although there are some increasingly useful results now appearing, which is why OpenCYC is worth keeping an eye on. > A CAD tool is very powerful and very complex but in the right hands can > produce much of value. I think that a CAD-like tool can be used be a domain > expert with some training and still be able to capture the business essence > that is being lost in the translation from requirements capture and final > deliverables. The openEHR people are working on just such tools - to help domain experts distill their knowledge into Archetypes. It remains to be seen how successful they will be, and I suspect it will take several generations of such tools before they are suitable for wide use - at this stage, we haven't seen the first generation, but I know it is being actively worked on. -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0
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