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From: td1jac@kwi.com (Jin Chang)
Subject: Simplest sentence with expressibility!
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Hello, there-

While I am doing A.I work, the following question came to my mind
and I am wondering whether anybody has worked on this issue.

The question is:

What is the simplest form of sentence we can formulate without
loosing any expressibility?  I presume the simplest form of the
sentence is just one word ( which may be noun or verb in its use -
for example, the sentences like "Fire" or "Look", etc.. ) but
I believe we CAN NOT represent ALL situations with just one word.

Assuming we have a machine which can analyze the sentence of only
one word and remembers the context which the machine, itself is
currently in by analyzing the previous series of sentencs so far, 
CAN ALL the situations be expressed?

I am rather ambiguous about the term "situation" here, but I guess
I am generally implying it in the context of "common sense" or 
"natural language understanding" - again, this is rather ambiguous, 
but the situation is usually regarded as "open" object anyway....

Any opinions or suggestions?


Jin Chang.


