Robin Allott, rmallott at percep.demon.co.uk, wrote on Tue, 22 Feb 2000:
> The following forwarded comment is on the recent extended
> discussion in sci.lang of the future of linguistics
> (originated under the sceptical heading 'Wither linguistics?'):
> [...] The work of Pulvermuller, 'Electrocortical distinction
> of vocabulary types', and others using similar research protocols,
> allows one to begin to picture how from the intersection of lexical
> and syntactic processes in the brain the continuous stream of
> well-formed and semantically valid speech can be produced.
Yes, but how to achieve the lexico-syntactic intersection? It is
tricky in software, but we are doing it with Mind.Forth PD AI:
<PRE>
/^^^^^^^^^^^\ Syntax Strings Together a Thought /^^^^^^^^^^^\
/visual memory\ ________ semantic / auditory \
| /--------|-------\ / syntax \ memory |episodic memory|
| | recog-|nition | \________/------------|-------------\ |
| ___|___ | | |flush-vector | _______ | |
| /image \ | __|__ / \ _______ | /stored \ | |
| / percept \ | / \/ \/ Verbs \------|--/ phonemes\| |
| \ engrams /---|---/ Nouns \ \_______/ | \ of words/ |
| \_______/ | \_______/-------------------|---\_______/ |
</PRE>
> In the brain different categories of words, content words,
> function words, vision words, action/motor words, are associated
> with topographically different patterns of excitation; the brain
> seems to be categorising the perception of words in ways very
> similar to the standard analyses of the lexicon.
Robin Allott's website has a paper "The Primitive Vocabulary" at
http://www.percep.demon.co.uk/primvoc.htm which will help coders
to standardize a common set of Deep Mindcore Bootstrap Concepts:
<PRE>
/^^^^^^^^^^^\ /^^^^^^^^^^^\
/visual memory\ ________ / auditory \
| /--------|-------\ / syntax \ |episodic memory|
| | recog-|nition | \________/---|-------------\ |
| ___|___ | | | | _______ | |
| /image \ | __V___ ___V___ | /stored \ | |
| / percept \ | /deep \------/lexical\----|--/ phonemes\| |
| \ engrams /---|---/concepts\----/concepts \---|--\ of words/ |
| \_______/ | \________/ \_________/ | \_______/ |
</PRE>
> With this topographical
> categorisation, one can begin to see how there must be processes
> for associating the different categories in ways which are
> equivalent to the meaning-content of a sentence, within the
> very large context represented by the persisting structure
> of dynamic memory (Schank's term). Gallese and Rizzolatti's
> research on mirror neurons is also encouraging (to be the
> subject a conference in July 'Mirror Neurons and the Evolution
> of Brain and Language'). If the neurology and the less formalistic
> approaches of contemporary linguistics can begin to make sense
> together, a genuine and comprehensive 'Science of Language' may
> come into being much sooner than is often supposed.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/7256/mind4th.html Mind.Forth
is the software implementation of such a 'Science of Language.'
Look for a book on 'The Art of Computer Mindmaking' coming in 2000.
> Robin Allott
>http://www.percep.demon.co.uk/catsat.htm>http://www.percep.demon.co.uk/