Re: Fw: Intro to natural language processing
Rich may be more right than wrong.
Given that researchers at UCLA in 1980 were able to discern the differences
in EEG (brain waves) when a subject thought STOP, START, LEFT, RIGHT and a
few more and given that technology has advanced during the intervening sun
spot cycle (22 years) then I suspect EEG's can be used today to note when a
subject reads words and phrases that are more pertinent to him/her than are
others, thus begin to organize a personal ontology. Any takers?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Cooper" <richcooper@mindspring.com>
To: "Jack Ring" <jring@AMUG.ORG>; <standard-upper-ontology@IEEE.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Intro to natural language processing
> Jack Ring wrote
>
> > Although this to sympathetic kinesics phenomenon may apply to the
aspects
> > of language such as mimicing speaking or learning lip reading, be
cautious
> > about extrapolating this brain function to intellectual or emotional
> > aspects.
>
> True, I haven't seen any experiments to validate this guess. It just
seems
> to
> help me think about how to organize software to work with linguistic
> processes. More of an abstraction of structure than a belief about
> realistic
> brain function.
>
> Rich
>
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rich Cooper" <richcooper@mindspring.com>
> > To: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@BESTWEB.NET>; "John Bateman"
> > <bateman@uni-bremen.de>
> > Cc: "Rob Freeman" <rjfreeman@EMAIL.COM>; <cg@CS.UAH.EDU>;
> > <wlawvere@buffalo.edu>; <standard-upper-ontology@IEEE.ORG>;
> > <jld@club-internet.fr>; <S.Polovina@shu.ac.uk>
> > Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 1:19 PM
> > Subject: Re: Fw: Intro to natural language processing
> >
> >
> >> Based on the following article
> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4113891.stm
> >> it appears that learning in the mirror neurons changes
> >> the way we watch other people move. Since dance
> >> is an emotional form of communication, probably
> >> there is a similar effect in language. The more we
> >> know a language through experience, the better we
> >> are at hearing others speak it or reading written forms
> >> of the language.
> >>
> >> JMHO,
> >> Rich
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>