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From: rolandi@gollum.Columbia.NCR.COM (rolandi)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: talking cats or something
Message-ID: <21@gollum.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 10:14:45 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  5 10:14:45 1987
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In article <1431@houdi.UUCP> you write:
>  (in reference to Sellers' well written summary of neurological variables
   involved in language......)
>
>has to be read cautiously.  It means we need a good understanding of
>the essential processes required to process language.  As has been
>pointed out by others, it doesn't mean we should imitate structures
>and techniques that are just one way of executing those processes.
>
C'mon Marty!  Do you mean to imply that you know of other "structures and
techniques" which might serve as models in natural language processing?
Do you mean to imply that "those processes" are comprehensively understood by 
anyone or any thing any where?  Sellers is right in suggesting that we will
not have automated natural language processors until we know a great deal
more about what we are trying to automate.  That knowledge will come from
studying the structure and FUNCTION of the only natural language processor
thus far recognized.

If you know of any non-human natural language processors that possess the
unrestricted conversational abilities of the average human speaker, I would
like to hear of them.  In fact, I would like to speak with them.  Could we
talk about dog training?  Art history?  How about the philosophy of science?


w.rolandi
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