Re: [LI] a freeware NLU project

["CYMM" <cymm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

O.K. Shridar,

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From: SHRIDHAR N. DAITHANKAR <shridhar.daithankar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, January 03, 2000 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: [LI] a freeware NLU project


>
> Hi
>
> I think if you declare goals of the project, progress made so far and
> steps expected in near future, that will be sufficient. Put it to Linux
>India list and I am sure you will get many volunteers.
>
What I am trying to do is to get a reverse-engineered mammalian mind-brain
running (...at sufficient granularity...) on a contemporary PC setup.

Such a technology, implemented as an NLU (Natural Language Understanding)
server should be eventually of enormous use. Input comes in as an ASCII
stream...and output is likewise. Later on, I guess that vocoders and speech
recognition devices could allow a full speech interface.

The key idea here is that the software paradigm is arrived at via
reverse-engineering of real mammalian mind-brains.  It's not based on a
prori ideas about how thinking (including reasoning and language) OUGHT to
work...but on empirical data (neuropsychology; neurolinguistics) of how
things ARE actually done.

The next step was to do the system modelling at a sufficient level of
granularity (...the depth of resolution of decomposition) to effect machines
that could render synthetic thought ...including useful language...IT'S NOT
A QUICK FIX LIKE A CHATTERBOT.

To produce even elementary language would require enormous computational
overheads (...unlike with a chatterbot)...but the long term yields would be
terrific!!

I'm at the point where I have to engineer the system decomposition to the
unix platform running under existing and immediately forseeable hardware
architectures.

Naturally, I'd have to consider the Linux phenomenon and it's potential for
generating mindshare...and (probably because of my computer politics...I
guess I'm an "information marxist"!!!) empowering Third World people.

 I think OSS is the coolest way to go. I especially like the idea of a Third
World initiative on this.

What I have to do now is to "block out" the system mapping it to the unix
platform...I have to understand the constraints imposed both by unix and the
C language.  After, the next step would be to start writing code fragments;
putting together stubby programs...and eventually (...by 2002) get a beta up
and running.

>From there on it's up to the people out there to use, consider, redesign
and add functionality.

So...think you might be interested?? I could send you some fragmentary
documentation as HTML and I'm working on formal documentation for
programmers.

>Rather I would love if this Linux India mailing list becomes open source
>project launching pad!! -:)

Pehaps a sublist...with occasional update postings to the digest??
>
>
> What you say?

YES! YES! YES! I CAN USE ALL THE HELP YOU'RE WILLING TO GIVE!!!


alain


cymm@xxxxxxxxxxxx

>
> Bye
>  Shridhar
>
>On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, CYMM wrote:
>
>> Shridar,
>>
>> Great Idea!!  I can do that at coollist.com.
>>
>> ...But the question is...how does one amass the audience...and accumulate
>> the mindshare on such an "unknown" list???
>>
>> ...And is their any prior way to determine whether the project has
>> sufficient merit as to be worth seeking other people's valuable time???
>>
>> Any further advice and assistance will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>> alain
>>
>> cymm@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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