Time to start programming
I’ve been posting (infrequently) on this blog for 3 months now. Mostly I’ve been pondering problems relating to NLP and representing language in the computer. Tonight it dawned on me that I can never really even know what the challenges of NLP are until I have actually done some programming. So I downloaded a copy … Read more
Rudimentary Mental Physics
Language cannot be understood solely in terms of words and letters. The brain is too complex; every piece seems to be connected to every other piece. If the mind really is a complex mesh of connections, it is hopeless to think of a “language subsystem” as an isolated group of neurons. Even the very young … Read more
NLP needs to become a synthesis
My most recent post calls for a NLP system based on the context of a sentence. The only problem is that, to emulate how the brain handles context, we need to understand how the mind represents ideas. We need a better theory of the brain. A digital video or audio file is just a long … Read more
