| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Mark Shieh) |
|---|---|
| Subject: | 8. Will the first AI speak latin? (Graht) |
| Date: | Tue Apr 10 15:15:00 2001 |
> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 16:46:56 -0600
> To: shadowrn@*********.com
> From: Graht <davidb@***.100.100.99>
> Subject: Will the first AI speak latin?
> Reply-To: shadowrn@*********.com
>
> http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html
>
> The above link will take you to an article that describes how
> one may use
> Latin as a basis for programming. If nothing else, I highly
> recommend
> reading the introduction.
>
> My usually shadowrun fevered brain immediately asked the
> question, "Do AIs
> in SR speak Latin?" While that thought drew a few chuckles
> at first, I
> started taking it seriously.
>
> What do you think? :)
Sounds neat, but I ran into a far less interesting variation
of this, in machine translation. I've been working in speech
recognition, and grammar construction is a real PITA given the
current state of speech rec technology.
I forget which company made noise about having all of their
documentation done this way (Caterpillar?), but they use something
called controlled English for all of their manuals. It's structured
in such a way that it is much easier to translate into other
languages automatically. Anyways, it seems that people are just
taking the approach of fixing English. :)
Random URLs found while searching for controlled English :)
http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Research/Kant/
http://www.bestweb.net/~sowa/misc/ace.htm
http://ai.about.com/compute/ai/library/weekly/aa031300a.htm
Mark
