Syntax-semantic mapping for general intelligence: Language comprehension as hypergraph homomorphism, language generation as constraint satisfaction

Ruiting Lian, Ben Goertzel, Shujing Ke, Jade O'Neill, Keyvan Sadeghi, Chi Keung Simon Shiu, Dingjie Wang, Oliver Watkins, Gino Tu Yu

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Abstract

A new approach to translating between natural language expressions and hypergraph-based semantic knowledge representations is proposed. Language comprehension is formulated in terms of homomorphisms mapping syntactic parse trees into semantic hypergraphs, and language generation as constraint satisfaction based on constraints derived via applying the inverse relations of these homomorphisms. This provides an elegant approach to implementing semantically savvy NLP systems, and also to thinking about the feedbacks between syntactic and semantic processing that are the crux of generally intelligent NLP. A prototype of the approach created using the link parser and the OpenCog Atom semantic representation is described, and initial results presented. Routes to extending this prototype into something useful for aiding generally intelligent dialogue systems are discussed.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial General Intelligence - 5th International Conference, AGI 2012, Proceedings
Pages158-167
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Dec 2012
Event5th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2012 - Oxford, United Kingdom
Duration: 8 Dec 201211 Dec 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7716 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityOxford
Period8/12/1211/12/12

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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