Re: Introductions ...

Hi Nishant,

Your help would be welcome in respect to work on natural language dialogues. I am proposing to first work on a demo where the language usage and meaning is clear and well understood, in this case for the dialogue involved in ordering a meal at a restaurant. This will allow us to work on representing the meaning and the semantic processing needed to support the dialogue, including disambiguation of word senses, and finding the most appropriate bindings for prepositions, pronouns etc.

Computational linguists have emphasised linguistic processing over semantics, but with a cognitive model we can redress the balance, and simplify the lexicon accordingly, along with reducing the amount of statistical data commonly associated with statistical parsing.  You can see more at:

	https://github.com/w3c/cogai/blob/master/demos/nld/README.md <https://github.com/w3c/cogai/blob/master/demos/nld/README.md>

Note that further demos would look at how cognitive agents can mimic human abilities to learn new language patterns from small numbers of examples.

Best regards,

Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
W3C Data Activity Lead & W3C champion for the Web of things