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Better parsers are interesting, but I feel like the parsers we have already are 'good enough.' The biggest hole in NLP is going from a parsed sentence to 'mean
by ktRolster 10y ago
Better parsers are interesting, but I feel like the parsers we have already are 'good enough.'
The biggest hole in NLP is going from a parsed sentence to 'meaning.' Once we get that right, and are able to feed meaning back into the parser, then all our parsing problems will be fixed imo.
- graycat 10y agoLet me suggest that the meaning will require working effectively with concepts. That is, humans, who actually have real intelligence, can read words and identify and work with the underlying concepts, but apparently so far no one knows how to program a computer to do this.
- badlogic 10y agoThe parsers available are good enough for English. Sadly, that's absolutely not true for other languages.
- realusername 10y agoAs a French with a strong accent, Siri probably understands only half of what I say and I have to make lots of efforts.
- hutzlibu 10y agoSo you are saying, all we need is true AI to fix our parsing problems? Well then, all is clear and easy now ... (How else would the computer understand "meaning" without beeing strong AI)
- ktRolster 10y agoSort of, more like, "our parsing is good enough for our use cases, we'd make more progress if we focused instead on getting closer to true AI" We don't even need true understanding of meaning, even a lousy approximation would be an improvement at this point (or I should say, a slightly less lousy approximation compared to what we have now).