Re: Reasoning in natural language (was Re: [agi] Books)

2007-06-11 Thread James Ratcliff
Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- James Ratcliff wrote: > I believe that is just a simple rule that you can input in most systems, and > it will match that point, but promgramming in each of those rules is a very > costly affair. Fortunately, natural language (unlike artificial lang

Re: Reasoning in natural language (was Re: [agi] Books)

2007-06-11 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- James Ratcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe that is just a simple rule that you can input in most systems, and > it will match that point, but promgramming in each of those rules is a very > costly affair. Fortunately, natural language (unlike artificial language) has a structure t

Re: Reasoning in natural language (was Re: [agi] Books)

2007-06-11 Thread James Ratcliff
I believe that is just a simple rule that you can input in most systems, and it will match that point, but promgramming in each of those rules is a very costly affair. James Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- James Ratcliff wrote: > Interesting points, but I believe you can get aro

Re: Reasoning in natural language (was Re: [agi] Books)

2007-06-11 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- James Ratcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting points, but I believe you can get around alot of the problems > with two additional factors, > a. using either large quantities of quality text, (ie novels, newspapers) or > similar texts like newspapers. > b. using a interactive built

Re: Reasoning in natural language (was Re: [agi] Books)

2007-06-11 Thread James Ratcliff
Correct, but I don't believe that systems (like Cyc) are doing this type of Active learning now, and it would help to gather quality information and fact-check it. Cyc does have some interesting projects where it takes a proposed statment and when a engineer is working with it, will go out an

Re: Reasoning in natural language (was Re: [agi] Books)

2007-06-11 Thread Mike Dougherty
On 6/11/07, James Ratcliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Interesting points, but I believe you can get around alot of the problems with two additional factors, a. using either large quantities of quality text, (ie novels, newspapers) or similar texts like newspapers. b. using a interactive built in

Re: Reasoning in natural language (was Re: [agi] Books)

2007-06-11 Thread James Ratcliff
Interesting points, but I believe you can get around alot of the problems with two additional factors, a. using either large quantities of quality text, (ie novels, newspapers) or similar texts like newspapers. b. using a interactive built in 'checker' system, assisted learning where the AI cou

Reasoning in natural language (was Re: [agi] Books)

2007-06-09 Thread Matt Mahoney
--- Charles D Hixson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Waser wrote: > > >> The problem of logical reasoning in natural language is a pattern > > recognition > > >> problem (like natural language recognition in general). For example: > > > > >> - Frogs are green. Kermit is a frog. Therefore Ke