The purpose of the LangLearn language-learning module ranges from the small chore of mimicking a novel syntactic construction for comprehension and generation, up to the enormous task of learning an entire human language in the same trial-and-error way as a human baby learns.
Algorithm of the LangLearn mind-module In the first of two implementations envisioned for the LangLearn module, the situation of encountering an unfamiliar chain of syntax will trigger a flag that calls the LangLearn module to mimick the novel syntax. For example, a phrase like "The more the merrier" might at first confuse and confound an AI Mind, but the LangLearn module could habituate a template of possible recognition of similar phrases in the future, such as "The bigger they are, the harder they fall." Such a habituated template may be used for both the comprehension and the generation of the novel syntax. In the second of two potential implementations of the LangLearn module, an AI program such as the ghost.pl AI Mind could use the Spawn module to create a copy of itself enhanced with hardcoded syntax instead of merely weighted elements on a syntactic chain of mind-modules. Future Development It may be possible to code a blank-slate AI Mind containing modules for all possible parts of speech but no particular syntax governing the order of appearance of the parts of speech in a sentence being generated. The LangLearn module of such an empty Mind could perhaps learn an entire human language through the same trial-and-error process by which a human baby presumably learns language. http://ai.neocities.org/LangLearn.html -- Language-Learning Mind Module ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tdd97e4d98de2bdce-M4c643d38868bb6dcc4ff5d33 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
