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From: ba672@lafn.org (Arthur T. Murray)
Subject: Re: language development-infant
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Spiros Triantafyllopoulos <strianta@primenet.com> wrote:

> [...]  This is fascinating. Back in '84 I was a graduate student
> studying computer science, and of course, back then being the
> golden era of AI, I decided to do a (restricted) natural
> language processing program for my thesis.

> [...] If the unknown word was defined in terms of known words
> and relationships, it was added to the knowledge base. 

Arthur T. Murray <mentifex@scn.org> respectfully admits:

Thanks.  Your initial article was an invitation for my posting of
details of a theory of mind in newsgroups germane to linguistics.

It sounds as if your language program was more sophisticated than
the Project Mentifex Mind.rexx program as of its 26.NOV.1994 most
recent version,  but it is also possible that Mind.rexx, strictly
based on a rigorously speculative theory of mind, may incorporate
data-flows and logic-structures more promising for the AI future:

                Theory of Child Language Learning
  /^^^^^^^^^^^\ (spiral of additions & deletions) /^^^^^^^^^^^\
 /visual memory\   interassociative ________     /  auditory   \
|      /--------|-------\  memory  / syntax \   | speech memory |
|      |  recog-|nition |          \________/<--|-------------\ |
|   ___|___     |       |  flush-vector|  spiral|    _______  | |
|  /image  \    |     __|___        ___V___ loop|   /stored \ | |
| / percept \   |    /deep  \<-----/lexical\<---|--/ phonemes\| |
| \ engrams /<--|-->/concepts\--->/concepts \---|->\ of words/  |
|  \_______/    |   \________/    \_________/   |   \_______/   |

http://www.newciv.org/Mentifex/ run periodic Mentifex Web search.
