Re: [opencog-dev] Making WordNode multi-lingual... ProtoAtom once again...

2016-11-21 Thread Ben Goertzel
It just seems like a huge waste of memory to have that EvaluationLink and PredicateNode for every word in the dictionary (and also a minor waste of processing time following those links)... this is the sort of wastage that ProtoAtom should be good at eliminating... Let's take time to discuss the

Re: [opencog-dev] Making WordNode multi-lingual... ProtoAtom once again...

2016-11-21 Thread Linas Vepstas
Hi Ben, Can you explain why you need to have a ChineseWordNode? A simpler solution is to use EvaluationLinks, as normal: e.g. EvaluatinoLink PredicateNode "Cantonese" ListLink WordNode "jau mou wifi-aaa" which has the same form as marking the tense, number, mood, etc.

[opencog-dev] Making WordNode multi-lingual... ProtoAtom once again...

2016-11-21 Thread Ben Goertzel
As we embark on more seriously using Lojban within OpenCog... and prepare to embark on putting Chinese there ... I have realized it may be bad that WordNode currently is language-independent... I guess this is probably not the right design (and is a reflection of the fact that we've only dealt

Re: [opencog-dev] Loading data for chatbot by primitive-load

2016-11-21 Thread Leung Man Hin
Hi Vishnu, I couldn't reproduce this problem... can you share the scm file you were using? On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Vishnu Priya wrote: > Hello, > > I know that i could give input to the chatbot by (nlp-parse "the sky is > beautiful"). > But i also tried

[opencog-dev] Loading data for chatbot by primitive-load

2016-11-21 Thread Vishnu Priya
Hello, I know that i could give input to the chatbot by (nlp-parse "the sky is beautiful"). But i also tried giving it a scm file, which has the parses of the above sentence using (primitive-load .). Then i tried querying by asking (process-query "What is beautiful"). But it says, sorry!

Re: [opencog-dev] About Attention Values and Truth Values

2016-11-21 Thread Vishnu Priya
Hmm! yes. i am getting it now. Thanks and regards, Vishnu. On Saturday, 19 November 2016 13:32:40 UTC+1, linas wrote: > > That makes the problem harder. You still have to somehow deal with > different word-senses for "apple", and in addition, you also need to create > a a model of the mental