Re: Something on grammar

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> All of this is consistent with a pipelined approach to natural language
> understanding, where processing occurs concurrently at different stages
> along the pipeline. This avoids backtracking, but includes a mechanism to
> reprocess text from a problem word when a problem is detected.
>

I don't want to be petty-minded, but isn't "reprocess text from a problem
word when a problem is detected" the very definition of backtracking ?  --
Just kidding ;) I agree that a pipelined approach with some concurrent
processing is probably the most realistic thing a cognitive architecture
can be made efficient. We don't really have a good term for that. Strictly
speaking, that's not a pipeline (in the NLP sense, at least) but more a
parallel laying of pipes -- if you will; the metaphor doesn't really fit
either.


> I find this exciting as there are many clues that point to the
> requirements for a functional model of NLU, NLG and language learning, and
> the challenge is to experiment with ideas for realising those requirements
> in a simple way. We will then be able to test how performance scales with
> the length of a sentence and other attributes.
>

Looking forward to explore that ;)

All the best,
Christian