Posted by: linasv on: 2009-11-08
During some recent reading, it struck me that a useful framework for thinking about and talking about sentence generation is the MTT or “meaning-text theory” of Igor Mel’cuk, et al Here is one readable reference:
Igor A. Mel’čuk and Alain Polguère, (1987) “A Formal Lexicon in Meaning-Text Theory”, Computational Linguistics, vol. 13, pp. 261-275.
portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=48160.48166
www.aclweb.org/anthology/J/J87/J87-3006.pdf
Within the [...]
Posted by: linasv on: 2009-09-08
I’ve recently resumed work on the question-answering chatbot, and am trying to get it to comprehend a broader range of questions and statements. The “big idea” is to create a number of “sentence patterns” that the pattern matcher can recognize and respond to. The reason this is a “big” idea is because I am trying [...]
Posted by: bgoertzel on: 2008-09-05
This summer OpenCog was chosen by Google to participate in the Google Summer of Code project: Google funded 11 students from around the world to work on OpenCog coding projects under the supervision of experienced mentors associated with the OpenCog project, and the associated OpenBiomind project
Applying for GSoC was David Hart’s idea originally; and, David [...]
Posted by: linasv on: 2008-05-05
I spent the afternoon creating a formalized mapping from RelEx and Wordnet to OpenCog. The goal is to clean things up enough so that I can run word-sense disambiguation code with opencog itself. Now, one thing that was nagging me is that this is, in some sense, the hard-way forward — I could just [...]
Posted by: dhart on: 2008-05-05
Crunch time is here! Our participation in Google’s Summer of Code program has accelerated release schedules and shifted priorities. Ben is busy writing initial documentation, converting much of it from Novamente documentation. Gustavo, Senna and Linas are working to tidy OpenCog code, removing crufty and embarrassing bits and improving infrastructure and interfaces. Joel is working [...]