Thursday, December 15, 2005

The Problem With Meaning 

Mixing Memory: The Problem With Meaning: "the problem I saw back then, and still see today. In order to write a program that can understand the meaning of sentences with which you and I would have no trouble, you basically have to program in most or all of the knowledge of at least a well-developed human child, if not an adult. And I don't see how that's really possible. It certainly doesn't seem to be possible today, since we don't have a firm understanding of how people reason about the mechanics of situations like the one in (2), or how they activate the relevant background knowledge (the paper linked above gives one potential answer, in the form of the 'Indexical Hypothesis'). If a machine doesn't have that level of knowledge, every time it gets a novel verb, it's going to be lost."

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