Warehouse
"Practical wisdom is only learnt in the school of experience." -Samuel Smiles
PROJECTS NEWS MESSAGES MAILING LIST  
Developers, get involved!
The AI Foundry promotes the development of Open Source artificial intelligence projects. Why not join it now? All projects welcome extra help!
Visit the AI Foundry

Reply to Message

Not registered yet?

The AI Depot has a focused community of friendly users. Rather than let anyone abuse the site at the brink of promiscuity, we prefer to let only those with an active interest participate... this simply requires registering.

Why not sign up!

Joining the site's community is completely free. You can then post messages freely, and customise your personal profile at will. Specific privileges will also be granted to you, like being able to access printer-friendly articles without restrictions. So, why not register?

Username:
Password:
Subject:
Email me when someone replies.
Body:

Parent Message

It probably is necessary to code the grammar - for now

Here is my view on this.

I would agree that the human brain does not appear to have hard wired grammar rules for any particular language.

There has been some speculation, with some evidence to support it, that it may contain some sort of generalised grammar rules with parameters of some sort that are then set for the particular language being spoken, but I'll ignore this here.

To learn a language would probably require a very capable modelling system. The brain is clearly very good at this sort of thing. Furthermore, the brain does not just need to look at words on a page. It can relate words to what the eyes see people doing for example. As a very crude example. If it experiences pain commonly after someone says "I will hit you" it can start to get a grasp of what a future tense is.

I think that grammar rules would have to be programmed into computers for now, as a substitute for any decent sort of learning ability in computers. As computers get more sophisticated and we understand more about how to make machines learn they will just pick up language as we do.

Could neural networks learn grammar? Possibly. There have been some experiments. e.g.

http://www.amlap.org/2001/proc/proceedings_online-node23.html

The English in your post is very clear, by the way.

42 posts.
Monday 10 March, 12:26
Reply

Back to the AI Foundry.