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RT @ferrouswheel: On that note, the HK @opencog project is looking for developers: http://t.co/tAxsT5yD— October 22nd via Twitter
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RT @ferrouswheel: Amused to find out people are making predictions about whether @opencog will reach v1.0 in Dec 2012.— October 22nd via Twitter
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Videos of what we've been working on http://t.co/qATDqQR— August 4th via Twitter
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OpenCog Recap for May 2011: http://blog.opencog.org/2011/05/20/opencog-recap-may-2011/ #ai #machinelearning— May 20th via Twitter
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OpenCog now has Python bindings thanks to @ferrouswheel http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Python— May 16th via Twitter
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Semantic dependency relations
I spent the weekend comparing the Stanford parser to RelEx, and learned a lot. RelEx really does deserve to be called a “semantic relation extractor”, and not just a “dependency relation extractor”. It provides a more abstract, …
Posted in Design, Development, Documentation, Theory
Tagged dependency grammar, grammar, linguistics, Natural Language Processing, NLP, Rel, Semantic relations, Syntax
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Sentence Patterns
I’ve recently resumed work on the question-answering chatbot, and am trying to get it to comprehend a broader range of questions and statements. The “big idea” is to create a number of “sentence patterns” that the pattern matcher can …
Posted in Design, Introduction, Theory
Tagged chatbot, IRC, NLP, parser, question answering, RelEx
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Determining word senses from grammatical usage
I’ve recently been tinkering with a mechanism for determining word senses based on their grammatical usage. This has me pretty excited, because, so far, it seems to be reasonably accurate (i.e. not terrible), and lightning-fast. I’m doing this by …
Posted in Design, Theory
Tagged link-grammar, Natural Language Processing, NLP, Syntax, WSD
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Hacking on Link-Grammar
I hack, heads-down, on link-grammar every now and then. Yesterday, I fixed another round of broken parse rules: making sure that sentences like “John is altogether amazingly quick.” “That one is marginally better” “I am done working” “I asked …
Launch of OpenCog Prime, a detailed design for a thinking machine, an AGI with the potential for intelligence at the human level and beyond
The purpose of this blog post is to announce the release of a wikibook outlining a design for a specific AGI system intended to be built on top of the OpenCog framework.
This system design is called OpenCogPrime, and is …
Spaced repetition and memory
An article in Wired from a while back on Piotr Wozniak (no relation to Steve), a researcher of optimal memory and learning strategies, got me thinking about learning theory and memorization in the context of OpenCog. From the article …
Hebbian Links and Importance Spreading
This post will cover the HebbianLink, and two MindAgents, the ImportanceSpreadingAgent and the HebbianLearningAgent. The former agent spreads Short term importance (STI) along HebbianLinks, while the later updates the HebbianLink truth values.
Let’s look at the HebbianLink shall we?
There are …
Posted in Design, Development
Tagged AttentionAllocation, HebbianLinks, ImportanceSpreading, OpenCog
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Mapping Wordnet, RelEx to OpenCog
I spent the afternoon creating a formalized mapping from RelEx and Wordnet to OpenCog. The goal is to clean things up enough so that I can run word-sense disambiguation code with opencog itself. Now, one thing that was …