Re: language trainer - kind of thing

From: Lee Sau Dan (danlee_at_informatik.uni-freiburg.de)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: 15 Feb 2005 22:44:56 +0800

>>>>> "Alexei" == Alexei A Frounze <alexfru@chat.ru> writes:

    Alexei> I remember that that has been quite a popular thing and
    Alexei> there even was some kind of subjective test for the
    Alexei> operation of such an AI-aided program ... like the user
    Alexei> had to conversate with it for a few minutes or something
    Alexei> like that and then guess whether or not he has talked to a
    Alexei> computer/program or another human (obviously using another
    Alexei> computer connected with the user's).

Are you talking about the Turing test?

    Alexei> I mean, if we put aside the analysis of the user input,
    Alexei> such a program basically attempts to construct a sentense
    Alexei> using the word banks, grammar rules and whatever else
    Alexei> information it may need for this.

    Alexei> Right?

The "whatever else" part is the most difficult or even unrealistic to
implement. No one has a good method to represent all kinds of
knowledge digitally and nobody dare to give a mathematical definition
of "common sense". 

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