Tue Jul 20 21:12:56 UTC 2010

DIGITAL
THOUGHT

English for Computers

Ask me,
tell me,
I ask you:


What is the ... ?

Who was the ... ?

When did ... ?

How can ... ?

Which ... ?

How many ... ?

Where ... ?

Why ... ?

Modular Language Techniques

  • ONTOLOGY categorization, causation, derivation
  • MOTIVATION MODEL
  • situation analysis
  • discourse style / type
  • motivations, priorities
  • information states
  • scalar (key word), vector (syntax) language
  • CONCEPTUAL RESONANCE
  • function of literature - reshape resonance fields
  • appropriate, yet unexpected
  • beautiful, stimulating, amusing
  • DICTIONARY: subject/obj expected category
  • action: actor class, object class
  • methods for 7 interrogatives: Who, What, Where, When, Why, How, Which
Digital Thought language comprehension software is being designed to accomodate a variety of ways of expressing a particular idea. For example, an oceanliner may be referred to as a cruise ship, a big boat, or metaphorically as a floating city. Digital Thought applies several techniques to evaluate the semantic equivalence.

Canonical Terms: First, Digital Thought anchors meaning to a set of canonical, or preferred formal terms such as "cruise ship", or "International Space Station". User input employing canonical terms is routed directly to the referenced information entity. (data/International_Space_Station)

Registered Synonyms: Secondly, if Digital Thought does not immediately recognize a term, a thesaurus is consulted to obtain the canonical equivalent to the term in question. (oceanliner = cruise ship)

Deconstruction: Third, Digital Thought will attempt to process unrecognized terms by separating leading or trailing modifiers from the entity description and then attempting independent term lookup. ($modifier $object_class) ($first_name $last_name)

Ontology: Fourth, if the non-canonical term is a class, Digital Thought will seek an appropriate data entity from the list of category instances. (boat > cruise ship)

Conceptual Resonance: Fifth, if metaphor or abstraction veils the subject identity, a conceptual network is invoked to discern it using shared feature comparison.

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